Many, if not most, ebook platforms are adversarial to the health of libraries and intellectual freedom. One of the larger ebook platform companies is Clarivate so I want to use it for an example of how its business practices increasingly harm libraries.
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I’d been concerned with what I had once called digital cultural amnesia. Though in reflecting on the word “amnesia” I no longer think it’s the best way to express the problem. Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, writes about the phenomenon in The Observer.
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