If you work in the for-profit book industry, like I do as a bookstore owner, and you think libraries are your enemy, you're a fool. An utter buffoon. A real ding-dong. A nincompoop. A cad. A jaggoff. A dim bulb. A pea brain. Not so good at assessing the world and your place within it. A blunt tool.
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
