The E-Book Wars
Update: 2022-11-11
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In 2019, a group of librarians (quietly) stormed the offices of a major publisher, Macmillan, to protest a controversial policy on e-books. On this show, how a tiny change - a book on a screen - threw an industry into war with itself.
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I am super surprised to hear that ebooks have expiration date or number of uses. I think this is lame.