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Publishers Are Using E-books to Extort Schools and Libraries
FUTURE SHOCK
The big publishers’ ultimate goal is to turn e-books into assets that libraries and schools can only rent, and never own. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
Jennie Rose Halperin
Published
Apr. 18 2021
5:04AM EDT
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