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You might have received email from Vailey Oehlke, director of libraries for Multnomah County Library, asking you to sign a petition from #eBooksForAll, a campaign of the American Library Association, about MacMillan’s forthcoming two-month delay on releasing ebooks to libraries, and you should do so. “Macmillan says that libraries undercut their profits by allowing readers free access to materials that they would otherwise purchase,” she writes. “This is simply not true. In fact, libraries often pay four times the amount for e-books as consumers do.”