Why can't Karl get ebooks from the library?

Please go to http://www.ebooksforlibraries.com and fill out our petition today!

To All Book Publishers:

We are your customers. We buy your print books, your audiobooks, and your ebooks. We also use libraries. We love our libraries and we trust our librarians to recommend great reads. Libraries are unique places where we discover new authors, explore new genres, and connect with our neighbors over books. In many cases, we use libraries to find more of your books to buy.

However, unlike print books, you have limited our ebook choices at libraries. We don't think this is fair -- for us or for libraries. We want the choice to check out your books, in any format, from our local libraries. We want the ability to use libraries digitally just as we have with print.

As book lenders, libraries directly and indirectly encourage us to purchase books. We will still buy your ebooks, but we need libraries to help us discover, explore, and connect. We see libraries as your partners and we respectfully ask that you work with them.




Therefore, we sign this petition to encourage publishers to work with libraries to:
- Provide digital content to libraries
- Allow libraries to have access to books in all formats
- Develop a business model that allows publishers and authors to thrive while ensuring that libraries can continue to serve readers and build collections for our communities

Reading is your business. Reading is our business. Reading is everyone's business.

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[Elround4]

What about getting books from self-publishers as well?

[Jermaine Nicholson]

get paid to read eBooks watch the video on the youtube channel to learn more.

[Jill Collins Brown]

Signed the petition. Long live libraries!

[ZeroGrowth]

Just signed the petition.

[MuehlPublicLibrary]

Excellent! Especially the ending! Reading is everyone's business!

[bphuelva]

In any case, it´s a very good way for our own users to voice the position that we must defend as professionals

[bphuelva]

Congralutions on the video. It is a perfect way to describe our point of view on this rather controversial topic. Right now here in Spain, we are discussing ways of setting up a lending system with the publishing industry for ebooks in public libraries, and your experience and vindicating approach inspires us. However, it is a difficult subject in which most of the time we feel excluded and play at a disadvantage

[Leah White]

I love the tone and approach you are taking with the video. Thank you SO much for bringing a sense of professionalism and civility to this conversation. It's just perfect. Well done Topeka Library!