S.F. Public Library’s main ebook provider to shut down – San Francisco Chronicle

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San Francisco Public Library’s main ebook service is suddenly shutting down

By Aidin Vaziri, Staff WriterUpdated Nov 17, 2025 5:50 p.m.

Editor’s note: There is an audio file in the online article, I cannot include here. –DrWeb

San Francisco’s library patrons are about to lose access to one of their most-used ebook platforms — the latest ripple effect of a crisis shaking the library supply industry nationwide.

The San Francisco Public Library announced that Boundless, its largest ebook supplier, will go offline Dec. 8 after its parent company, Baker & Taylor, said it will cease operations at the end of 2025. 

The closure of the nearly 200-year-old distributor has sent libraries across the country scrambling to find new vendors and digital access points for readers.

“Due to the company’s sudden closure, the Boundless platform will end,” the library said in a statement. 

Boundless users will be unable to place new holds after Monday, Nov. 17, and must check out any remaining titles by Nov. 24.

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#Unbound / #Boundless / #NeemTreePress , who lately ran into "trouble" because they "went out of business" and transferred the book rights to an entity which 'disclaim(ed) any legal obligation to make good on Unbound’s debts and describing the disbursement of unpaid royalties and invoices as “goodwill payments”–which, by the way, would not be paid' ... has apparently run out of business?

Hopefully with the rights actually returning to the authors?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/135780549?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

If the affected writers had some clarity that for sure their rights had been restored, this would be good news after a fashion.

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https://bravewords.com/news/strangers-release-still-the-one-single-and-visualizer/

#Strangers #StillTheOne #Boundless #FrontiersMusic #SpanishRock #HardRock #NewSingle #Visualizer #August22 #RockMusic

“Love burns in the Heart of the Master: he, seeing only God in every thing, with the white flame of worship purges it of all its fancied imperfection. His boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/06/19/love-burns-in-the-heart-of-the-master-he-seeing-only-god-in-every-thing-with-the-white-flame-of-worship-purges-it-of-all-its-fancied-imperfection-his-boundless-adoration-kindles-space-itself-le/

#adoration #aleisterCrowley #all #book #boundless #burns #everyThing #fancied #god #heart #imperfection #kindles #leaving #love #master #noVoid #notCompassed #only #passion #purges #quote #seeing #space #TheHeartOfTheMaster #whiteFlame #worship

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STRANGERS Announce Fourth Studio Album Boundless; New Single Streaming

https://bravewords.com/news/strangers-announce-fourth-studio-album-boundless-new-single-streaming/

#STRANGERS #Boundless #AlbumRelease #FrontiersMusic #RockMusic #SpanishBand #HardRock #NewSingle #August2025 #Metal

:: sigh ::

Organisers of the (alleged) SCAM Should go to JAIL.

TLDR: #Unbound - the crowd sourcing book #publisher - went into Liquidation / Administration. New company #Boundless (set up by Unbound's former owners) claimed liquidation was to sort out finances and all obligations to customers and authors would still be honoured.

Now they are taking all the money, - including YEARS OF PENDING BACKPAY- not paying Authors and not fulfilling Customer book orders.

Scum.

https://www.printweek.com/content/news/if-i-wasn-t-so-fstarcking-angry-i-d-laugh-boundless-delays-author-payments