Monthly Archives: March 2011

Harper Collins and some more numbers

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

In response to some of the criticisms I’ve seen leveled in Teleread comments and quite inaccurate blog posts from those more sympathetic to the publisher side, I have been interested in the numbers but hadn’t made time to pull stats because that just isn’t something I work with normally– my libraries’ fantastic Collection Development team […]

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Solidarity is powerful. And Libraries don’t have it.

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

By now we’ve had time for the various responses to the Harper Collins proposed licensing changes to sink in. There are many different camps within the library and publisher worlds, some are still in favor of a boycott, whether explicit or implicit. We can debate whether a boycott would work or not from many different […]

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