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by badlibrarian 494 days ago
They also refused to make their e-books available to libraries because they said it hurt sales. Which at least is a new wrinkle on the endless DRM debates.

Hell, if I ran a publishing company I'd remove DRM just so I wouldn't have to listen to Cory Doctorow rant about it. Having to proofread his books is punishment enough.
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AlotOfReading 494 days ago
I hadn't heard that they limited availability, only that it was on a 4 month delay after consumer publication.

All of the big 5 publishers (including Tor under Macmillan) have incredibly bad terms for digital lending though. Wouldn't be surprised if they were doing the common thing of terminating the backcatalog on top of limiting initial access.

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Mindwipe 493 days ago
No publisher has done anything other than laugh at Cory for years now.
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