Thread: Copyright vs. public library: the next big battleground?
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Old 11-04-2010, 07:40 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by Fat Abe View Post
You'll have to wait more than a few months before getting an email that the book is available. Possibly a year. One of the only exceptions that will shorten the wait period is a patron who has the book on hold but does not respond during the 3-day notification period to check out the ebook...
One of the other exceptions:

Libraries that have multiple "copies" (licences) for a ebook.

My library has a dozen+ copies of each of the Stieg Larsson books so a month or three is a reasonable estimate of wait time.

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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Amazon UK sell it for £2.68 ($4.20). For me, that is very much an "impulse buy" price.
At $4 and change, yes, I'd call that reasonable.
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