Macmillan Publishing’s New EBook Release Policy Will Delay Customer Access

Macmillan’s approach is ridiculous. As long as the do this I will not purchase a Macmillan book. Example, I read my first Taylor Jenkins Reid book in March 2019 through the library. I loved it - Daisy Jones and the Six - so much, I bought it. Then I bought 5 more books by this author. Public Libraries expose me to new authors that I would otherwise not consider.

E books should be available to all at the same time.

As a tax payer who is obligated to support local public libraries I feel we have to right to have more access to ebooks.

Please lift the embargo against libraries.

Wow, well I can no longer access Sherrilyn Kenyon, title rented.

I adamantly support MCPL’S right to purchase newly released ebooks for customers.

This is all about trying to sell more books and have people not utilize libraries. Who ought to be protesting are the authors themselves. Libraries aren’t restricted in purchasing volumes in hard copy; they should not be restricted by providing ebooks either. This is about greed, by the publisher and the authors.

I am transcribing information I found on a different library system and I feel it is important to share regarding the drastic difference in prices....now this is gouging:

CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert
PRINT:
List Price: $28.00
Amazon Book Price: $17.00
Amazon eBook Price $15.00
Library Book Price: $15.00 (plus processing charges)
Library eBook Price.....[are you ready for this...] $55.00. (AND....this is for 24 months, it must be re-purchased....)

AUDIO
List Price: $45.00
Amazon Audiobook Price: $34.00
Audible Download Price $28.00
Library Audiobook Price: $40.00
Library eAudiobook Price: $95.00

(prices as of August 2019)

Everyone desvres a chance to read. Mot only is this ethically questionable, you are denying people the magic of reading just for more money. Shame.ONE ebook and, say, 1000 people... it's NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. NO ONE can wait that long. Be honest, dear publishers. This is basiclly not letting libary users not have the book they want for months. Reading isn't something to be expolited. It isn't something to force high prices on because of too-long wait lists, denyning poor people books because they can't buy the insanly overpriced hardbacks. It's sometimthing that belongs to everyone. Something to share. The libary isn't something to be bought or sold, and the publishers are just turning reading into another way of revune, and nothing else. But reading has always been so much more.

This is a fight for the readers, each and every one. So join the fight at #ebooksforall.

#ebooksforall

Greed, just pure greed

This is absolutely heartbreaking to learn about. Macmillan Publishers' is actually stealing from all of our communities'. They are taking the right to free knowledge and the magic of a story from our children's minds.

This is one of the saddest, most selfish policies put in place to earn some extra money.

I truly hope our voices and disappointment are heard.

#MacmillanPublishersNoMore #ebooksforall

Sad very sad that publishers have to do this