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Publisher Macmillan Backs Off Policy Restricting E-Book Sales To Libraries

At a time when libraries are closed because of the coronavirus, Macmillan has reversed a policy it adopted last fall limiting the e-books it would sell to each library just after publication.
E-readers are lined up at the 2019 Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany.

Publishing house Macmillan is backing off a controversial policy restricting e-book sales to libraries, in a letter to librarians, authors, illustrators and agents on Tuesday that "There are times

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