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Originally Posted by Fbone
Simon & Schuster and Macmillan dont allow Overdrive to offer ebooks to libraries. Although they do permit their published audiobooks.
Other publishers may stipulate a waiting period.
I have an email out to Overdrive hoping they'll provide more info.
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Yes, some do have a waiting period to borrow their eBooks from the library even though they are available for sale.
9th Judgment the latest Women's Murder Club book had such a wait.
And most libraries do only purchase one copy in a given format unless the eBook is really popular like the Stieg Larsson books. So what I usually do is check out what's new every day or every other day just to see what I might want and get it quickly or be low on the waiting list.
The problem is that say your library allows 21 days to borrow an eBook, a person will borrow it. Then say that person finishes it in 16 days. It will sit borrowed for 5 days when it could have been returned. There is no directions given on returning PDF/ePub early. So that makes it take longer when you are on the waiting list.
Also, when you do return an eBook via ADE, it gets removed from the list of books, but it doesn't actually get deleted from your computer. The expired file still sits there taking up disk space.