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Please sign the petition to keep eBooks in libraries. Sadly, unlike a regular person, a library cannot pay Amazon or Barnes & Noble for an eBook and then lend it out to people.  We can buy a printed book from these companies, place it on the shelf, and lend it out–but digital content is being treated differently by the publishers and the companies who manage digital content licensing.  We very much want to offer these eBooks to patrons; however, the publishers’ policies are preventing us from doing so.Think that’s wrong? So do we – Boyd County Public Library is committed to advocating for a change to these restrictive policies and we need your help to do that. Click here for a sample letter.

 

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Email, write or call these publishers to let them know what you think.

Macmillan Publishing 75 Varick Street New York, NY 10013 (212) 226-7521 customerservice@mpsvirginia.com	Hachette Book Group 466 Lexington Avenue #131 New York, NY 10017 (212) 364-1100 customer.service@hbgusa.com
Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 (212) 698-7000 http://simonandschuster.com/about/contact_us	Brilliance Audio 1704 Eaton Drive Grand Haven, MI 49417 (616) 846-5256 libsales@brillianceaudio.com

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to express my disappointment with your unwillingness to sell or license eBooks to public libraries. By refusing to work with public libraries, you are denying library users equal access to books. I do not believe a publishing company should restrict access to information through the public library based solely on a book’s format.

Sincerely,

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