ALA President Challenges ‘Discriminatory’ eBook Policies

The American Library Association’s president Maureen Sullivan released an open letter to publishers today, singling out the “discriminatory” eBook library policies of three major publishers. The letter focused on how Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin do not offer digital books to many of the 169 million public library users around the country. Here’s an excerpt: Librarians have a...