What you are paying, who you are paying it to, and what to ask before the next renewal.
Trace one ebook from library budget to private equity profit. The 4x markup, the expiration trap, the platform cut, and where every dollar actually goes. Evidence-based pricing analysis with action playbook.
EbooksOwnership
Part of the Libby, ownership & ebook terms
Move the sliders and see what your library actually pays to lend a digital book. The interactive companion to Follow the Dollar, with every number sourced.
Ebooks
Part of the Digital lending record
The patron comparison exists everywhere. Here's the one for staff: cost models, collection control, contract terms, and what you actually give up with each.
Ebooks
Part of the Digital lending record
A patron asks why she can't save the ebook she borrowed from Libby. You explain it disappears when the lending period ends. She asks why. You realize you've never fully explained why. Here's the answer.
Ebooks
Part of the Digital lending record
At this year's Library Insights Summit, a librarian named the reason small-press books rarely make it onto library shelves. The diagnosis was sharp. The advice stopped one step short of it.
Library systems
This one is built almost entirely out of Baker & Taylor's own sworn court filings, cited throughout, with links at the end. We'll walk the record, keep the open questions open, and tell you plainly where the documents stop and the inferences start. Disclosure first: I worked at Baker & Taylor, on the software side, years before any of this. I didn't make any of it up. It's in the filings, sworn under oath.
EbooksOwnershipVendors
Part of the Libby, ownership & ebook terms