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Tyler Bahr

Sep 7, 2026

9:48
So why does it cost libraries more for that stuff?
9:50
Yeah, you bet.
9:51
So we would love to get the same price that individual consumer can.
9:56
But because we're sharing that, the publishers have locked into a practice that I think is common across many industries in a technical sense, and that's subscriptions.
10:06
So rather than purchasing a perpetual license for software, you buy it once and then you have right to that ongoing until that software sunsets.
10:15
Software now we're paying on an annual basis, whether that's word processing or data or whatnot.
10:22
So we see that kind of as a mirroring trend.

6 MINS LATER

15:59
So we're getting ahead of the eight ball, but I think there is some catch up to do.

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