#kanopy is owned by the same investment firm that owns libby/overdrive; they have a monopoly in the public library market
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do you think academic librarians feel about the public adulation for jstor the way i feel about the public attitude towards libby (i.e., negative)?
#library#librarians of tumblr i summon thee: is it annoying to have people experience affection for individual vendors? it seems like it might be?#i understand the 'well if they're using our services that's great :)' attitude but surely there are limits?#i mean the jstor thing is also complicated because their staff made the choice to call the cops on aaron swartz#libby is just owned by venture capital. i haven't seen anybody waxing rhapsodic about hoopla. kanopy is sort of popular?#hoopla is owned by midwest tape a longtime library a/v supplier#& they put straight up n*zi shit in a bunch of library collections in like 2021 because their vetting is. um. not great#kanopy is owned by the same investment firm that owns libby/overdrive; they have a monopoly in the public library market#(ala estimates >90% of libraries that offer ebooks use libby)#they're also big with schools; if you've used the sora app that's the same company#vendors in academic publishing are also very bad! everybody hates elsevier but they aren't the only ones by a mile#anyway. feel free to weigh in#this is probably a facebook question but i am not going on there
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