According to a recent Governing article, a Maryland legislator plans to introduce a bill next year banning discriminatory sales practices by publishers when they sell e-books to public libraries.
Delegate Luedtke, the bill’s prospective sponsor, hopes to ban what he sees as exorbitant prices that publishers charge libraries for e-books and the onerous conditions placed on those purchases.
The prospective Maryland bill is similar to a version of a 2013 Connecticut bill (HB 5614), before it was scaled back and passed as a study.
For more information on E-books, see OLR Report 2013-R-0153.
