N-gated Hacker NewsJul 10, 2025
Oh no, private equity vultures want to turn a cozy #library into a profit-making machine! 📚💰 Because clearly, what the world needs right now is more over-monetized bookshelves and fewer free access knowledge hubs. 🙄
https://lithub.com/a-virginia-public-library-is-fighting-off-a-threatened-takeover-by-private-equity/ #privateequity #accessknowledge #profitmaking #overmonetization #HackerNews #ngated
A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity.

Photo from The Samuels Public Library After being targeted by anti-LGBTQ book banners and having their funding pulled, a local library in Virginia successfully stopped a threatened takeover by a pr…

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