From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:14:46 -0600

Yes, but if after close examination, only 2 of those 10,000 titles
really have any merit, would you still say that it was a "good deal"
for the library's patrons?  Providing a lot of rubbish to patrons is
hardly doing them a service. I'm not saying that all 10,000 titles are
rubbish, but the fact is that the Douglas Library cannot assure its
patrons that they are not. Did the librarians actually read all of
those books themselves before ordering them?

Sandy Thatcher


> From: Nawin Gupta <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:54:21 -0600
>
> Maybe what made the deal a win-win was a publisher who was realizing less
> than $40,000 in revenues from the Douglas County Library and the library
> being able to nearly double the number of eBook titles with one deal.
>
> Nawin Gupta
> Informed Publishing Solutions, Inc.