Comments on: How to Protest HarperCollins at Your Own Comfort Level http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/ the neverending reference interview of life Fri, 17 May 2013 00:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: HarperCollinsGate: Some Thoughts « The Scholarly Kitchen http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3897 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:32:07 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3897 [...] while Andy Woodworth, a library blogger at Agnostic, Maybe helpfully proposes five different levels of protest that readers can choose depending on their comfort level; these range from “Boycott HarperCollins [...]

]]> By: Marilyn http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3718 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:43:34 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3718 I’m planning on doing some weeding in the near future. Any HarperCollins titles that I discard, I plan on sending back to them with a note that I was afraid that I might have exceeded the 26 circulation limit and I knew that they would want them back.

]]> By: Harper Collins (#hcod) New OverDrive DRM Terms Push Libraries to Fight for Users’ Rights | Good News Librarian http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3713 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 07:24:59 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3713 [...] short of this type of drastic action, I personally like Andy’s tiered set of possible reponses and feel that the bits about not reviewing titles and not promoting titles from publishers who are [...]

]]> By: Audrey http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3707 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:31:16 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3707 Libraries boycotting HC will backfire. If a patron can’t get the latest Janet Evanovich or Michael Crichton, they’re going to buy the book.

Library boycott = HC making MORE money

]]> By: Open Thread Thursday: Sparta Edition « Agnostic, Maybe http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3655 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:07:59 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3655 [...] eBook Readers’ Bill of Rights over the weekend and blogging on the HarperCollins timeline (1, 2, 3, 4 entries), it feels like I’ve been doing nothing but reading and writing in my spare time for [...]

]]> By: Is A Boycott of HarperCollins The Right Course of Action at This Time? #hcod #ebookrights | Librarian by Day http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3641 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:39:53 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3641 [...] How to Protest HarperCollins at Your Own Comfort Level [...]

]]> By: Bobbi http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3640 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:26:33 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3640 Well if we’re gonna get on our high-horse we might as well get all the way on. Refusing to work with libraries limits what we can offer our patrons, which is what this is really about right?

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3636 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:05:11 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3636 So far as I’m aware, there are libraries doing it. I’d have to ask Brett (he’s one of the libraries behind the Boycott HC site) about it. I saw it being discussed on one of the local NJ listservs and I’ll have to find it to recall all the comments.

I can understand ricearoniana’s position even if I don’t think it’s an ‘assault’ on the right to read. It’s not a denial of all reading and there are alternative venues for reading those titles. But I know that it’s not going to win everyone over and there are certainly different levels of comfort (hence this post). I just think that librarians discount the power than we wield and need a reminder.

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3635 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:56:57 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3635 Do we then impale these heads on pikes as a warning to the others?

]]> By: Andy http://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3634 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:56:21 +0000 https://agnosticmaybe.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/how-to-protest-harpercollins-at-your-own-comfort-level/#comment-3634 In thinking about it, I’m wondering why library budgets can’t be built in with more flexibility for ‘pay as you go’ or similar sorts of services. I think it would be a step forward to find ways to make it work.

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