04-23-2011, 12:25 PM | #316 | |
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And there's nothing magical about epub - Overdrive chose it because it was available to them (which .azw presumably was not). In the same manner that they chose .wma for audiobooks, despite the fact that this meant that ipods couldn't listen to their audiobooks. |
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04-23-2011, 12:56 PM | #317 |
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*I* think ePubs are magical. *sniff*
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04-23-2011, 01:06 PM | #318 | |
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Let's not forget that libraries also have the option to not make any changes: "OK, pre-Amazon Kindle, our yearly budget would allow 26 people to checkout this ebook for 14 days. And, post-Amazon Kindle... yup, budget is exactly the same. 26 people can read this book each year." |
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04-23-2011, 04:22 PM | #320 |
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It's not 26 checkouts per year, it's 26 checkouts per book... if everyone only kept it for a week then the library would have to re-buy after 6 months...
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04-23-2011, 06:20 PM | #322 | |
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04-23-2011, 06:27 PM | #323 |
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I think a lot of people don't see it. I know it's there, but a lot of people don't know it's there. So they don't use it.
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04-23-2011, 06:30 PM | #324 | |
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If a library has one book available for checkout and the check out period is for 2 weeks/14 days, that equals 26 checkouts in a year. If they change the checkout period to 1 week, that equals 52 checkouts in a year. Yes, there are folks who return their books early, but just as a baseline for calculating expenditures, the library needs to presume that the average customer will use the full checkout time allowed ("It gets returned/deleted automatically; why should I have to do anything?"). ---- Minor change of topic. My local library has a sign that says, "Pay your library fines, so we can buy more books!" Since ebooks are automatically returned, there's no such thing as fines. What would you (general you, not just elcreative) think of a library that charged a small fee for the longer checkout times? Or, allowed X ebooks per year before charging? |
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04-23-2011, 06:57 PM | #325 | |
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That may encourage early returns as well as generate a tiny amount of revenue. I'm not sure about charging for each subsequent checkout after X number of ebooks checked out per year. What about a general limit? X number of ebooks per year is all you're allowed to check out. After that, donations are accepted to negate that limit. |
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04-23-2011, 07:11 PM | #326 |
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I'm in favor of being able to accept a library fine to keep a book a bit longer - no one wants to get to the last page of their book only to find that OOPS GONE and you're now #318 on the waiting list.
On the other hand, instituting the fine for people who don't return the book is, in my opinion, needlessly prohibitive. If I finish my library book on my Overdrive app on the day its due, I'm not going to rush home to tether myself to ADE so that I can return the thing. Once again, new formats do not have to inherit the flaws of the old formats - automatic returns is why ebooks are BETTER than paperbacks. I also don't much like a X-checkouts-per-year theme. It's not in keeping with libraries in general. If you feel like libraries deserve more money, you can always cut them a check or lobby for higher taxes in your area to support them. |
04-23-2011, 07:37 PM | #327 | |
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I wouldn't think "returning a book" would be overly taxing. It's not like you have to get dressed, put gas in the car and drive to your local branch and put it in the book drop. |
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04-23-2011, 08:20 PM | #328 |
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I am amazed at the amount of calculations here based on totally unknowable information.
Does anyone here actually have first hand knowledge of how much Overdrive charges libraries for ebooks? Does anyone have any first hand knowledge of how much Adobe charges Overdrive to use/licenses it's encryption? I'd be interested to know how it actually works before I try to figure out how much it's all going to cost my local library. BOb |
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Why shoehorn ebooks into archaic pbook methodologies? Try this one on for size, allow for unlimited library downloading while only charging for books that are actually read. The onus would be on the patron to click each book title that they have read and then their account would be charged accordingly. Those who do check out books but do not click as read an algorithmically generated number of times, would be an indicator that they are not contributing to the financial stability of the library and would be put onto a list of dangerous patrons, perhaps placed into a separate but equal ebook system, where you would have to deal with things like holds. |
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