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Robotbeat on June 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Publishers File Suit Against Internet Archive

And they don’t have to pay inflated prices for a “license” that can be revoked at any time.

mcguire on June 1, 2020 [–]

https://cheshirelibraryblog.com/tag/how-much-do-libraries-pa...

Robotbeat on June 2, 2020 | [–]

Wow, yeah:

> "Libraries must pay up to 4X the retail price for digital versions of books (which only one user can have access to at a time)."

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