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Originally Posted by Fbone
My librarian told me. She liked how the system worked financially. Digital media she considers "core" service and will support it even though we had severe budget cuts. She said ebooks and audiobooks are very popular and I can expect more books added.
She wouldnt give any figures but called it a "subscription" and said costs were much lower than outright purchases would be. And very flexible. She is able to project future costs easily with relative accuracy.
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Hmmm...
Costs do seem hard to track down for some reason, I did find a few places that gave some costs, the most detailed costs I have found so far is in
http://listennj.pbworks.com/f/2010+a...11+pricing.pdf This gives some per library costs, but does not say what the regional library cooperative itself paid.
Seems though that a lot of the fixed costs is the split cost set up with regional coops and such? Is your library in one of these? I get the impression they mask and absorb some of the unit costs.