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Quotes for these are usually hundreds, or sometimes thousands, times more than a print title, and this must be paid each year for new cohorts of students to gain access.

Publishers are increasingly offering titles via an etextbook model, via third party companies, licensing content for use by specific, very restricted, cohorts of students on an annual basis.

Academic titles in paper form are protected from this gross exploitation by publishers of library collections and budgets.

Publishers can, and do, withdraw ebook licences previously purchased by a library and are increasingly forcing a new licence to be purchased annually for an ebook already in the collection.

Licences of ebooks are often confusing for both staff and students, and frequently restrictive.

We can name at least two well-known academic publishers who raised the cost for a single-user ebook by 200% or more with no warning earlier this year.

Price rises are common, sudden and appear arbitrary.

We see the monopoly created by copyright law being a root cause of these huge pricing differentials and no economic justification for it at all. ebook costs for a single user only can often be ten times the cost of the same paper book.

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If an ebook is available to license by a university it is almost always more expensive, and frequently significantly and prohibitively so.Where ebooks are not available or are prohibitively expensive, copyright law disallows educational establishments from scanning whole books they own in print.Various estimates from the UK Higher Education sector estimate that only around 10% of academic titles are available to universities in electronic format ( see this 2018 study from SCONUL for one example). Frequently we find that academic books are not available to institutions to license as an ebook.Public policy to support education and research should support a healthy ebook market, but we in fact see the opposite: As lockdown began in March we observed students borrowing as much of the print material that they needed as possible, but as libraries shut academic librarians then did their best to source digital versions.ĭue to UK copyright law university libraries cannot simply purchase an ebook in the way an individual can – instead we are required to purchase a version licensed specifically for university use. The COVID-19 pandemic, where students and researchers have not been able to physically visit libraries and access paper books have brought the many market issues regarding ebooks sharply into focus as ebooks have become our only purchase option. We are a group of UK based academic librarians, researchers, university lecturers and students writing to ask you to investigate the academic publishing industry over its pricing and licensing practices regarding ebooks. Please do continue to sign and share our letter in the meantime. We have since taken the matter up with the Competition and Markets Authority who are considering our case.

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Update : In response to our letter, the Education Select Committee said that they do not have the capacity to undertake this review.

Please read and consider adding your signature via this link. The letter below calls on the UK Government to investigate the practices of the academic ebook publishing industry. We call for urgent regulation of the market Read and Sign our Open Letter Academic publishing practices are making ebooks unaffordable, unsustainable and inaccessible to university libraries.