Where this is different is we’re not part of the conversation. I don’t think Amazon is ever going to start behaving like a library and that’s fine. But if we’re one day buying the majority of our collections as ebooks and library ethics can only apply to print books, where does that leave us?

The issue isn’t that Amazon is behaving like a business, the issue is that we have no way of creating a distinction between a business and the library.

And, as people on Twitter and elsewhere have pointed out, maybe we’re overly concerned with patron privacy – maybe we just assume that they know that Amazon has access to their info and it’s not our problem. But I think that’s letting the “book” aspect slide a little too much, you know?

And thanks, both for the congrats and for making Twitter a smarter place. We are, as you say, faced with as many questions as anything on these issues.

Congrats on the book, I am looking forward to it!