In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to
limit the
number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy
of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital
officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.»
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