HarperCollins to libraries: we will nuke your ebooks after 26 checkouts

Posted 2/25/2011…  submitted by Teresa Koltzenburg
HarperCollins to libraries: we will nuke your ebooks after 26 checkouts article by Cory Doctorow

LibraryGoblin sez, “HarperCollins has decided to change their agreement with e-book distributor OverDrive. They forced OverDrive, which is a main e-book distributor for libraries, to agree to terms so that HarperCollins e-books will only be licensed for checkout 26 times. Librarians have blown up over this, calling for a boycott of HarperCollins, breaking the DRM on e-books–basically doing anything to let HarperCollins and other publishers know they consider this abuse.”

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/25/harpercollins-to-lib.html