Did Europe Comics recently pull all of their books from the Hoopla app?
I've been reading a lot via that app - it's for libraries, and my system is a subscriber - and I've run through a lot of books from Europe Comics, with a lot more still on my list.
But the Europe Comics page in Hoopla is now blank.
When they announced they were "ending all consumer-facing activities," that sounded like they would still publish books (maybe fewer?) but they would not be marketing any of them to consumers. (Which sounds like a death spiral to me, but I am in marketing and may not be unbiased.) At that time, the announcement specifically said "you’ll still be able to find new Europe Comics titles through your preferred online retailer."
Their books were still available on Hoopla as recently as mid-March, when I borrowed & read a few.
But that was a couple of months ago, and death spirals tend to, well, spiral.
This question is brought to you by a guy who was expecting to read the fourth and final book in Manu Larcenet's excellent Ordinary Victories series today, but was stymied in his goal. He is not expecting any happy answer.
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