Continuing the Conversation: The Wrong Question from the Author’s Guild

The Author's Guild just announced yet another study. Every one of these studies is built around the same question: is library lending taking money away from publishers and authors? It's the wrong question, and I think we should stop letting it set the terms of the conversation. Here's the right question: who controls the terms libraries lend under, and are those terms fair to everyone at the table—authors, publishers, libraries, and readers? Join Ann Ford, Hoopla's Vice President of Sales and Customer Support, as she Continues the Conversation on what the actual disagreement is about and why it makes a big difference.

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An Empirical Study of the Impact of Library E-Lending on the Book Economy — Secretariat Advisors, commissioned by the Association of American Publishers and Authors Guild

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Ron Charles: Libraries Are Not the Problem

ReadersFirst: Significant Flaw in New Library eBook Study

Publishers Weekly: In Final Order, Court Declares Maryland’s Library E-book Law Unconstitutional

Words & Money: Rhode Island Passes Its Library Ebook Bill

PEN America — Report: Public Libraries Face “Existential Threat”