Hi Nick
I think we would be undermining our only USP in this situation if we start looking at charging customers for e-books - with commercial e-book providers looking at lending for a fee we'd be trying to compete on their terms and I have little doubt we'd fail. To quote George Bernard Shaw:
“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”
I think you're being reasonable Nick but we're all going to need to stay unreasonable unless we want the publishers to walk all over us.
Kind regards
Phil Jones
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