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Our library absolutely refuses to shelve book donations - even if it is a book in excellent condition that they have a waiting list built up.
Not kidding.
They put it in the closet and it gets sold for about 50cents at the next Friends sale. One of the numerous reasons I'm glad not to be dealing in paper books anymore, nothing to do with them once I've read them.
I love the Overdrive donation idea - I would wholeheartedly participate in it (as long as I get the option to read the book first) and wouldn't even mind paying a bit more than what I pay at Amazon for the same ebook since I would know that the book would be put to good use.
It has been brought up here a couple of times and somebody even got their library to accept a donated eBook once. But overall it just hasn't gained traction as an idea. Overdrive set up that "donate" link, but it still doesn't allow you to actually donate an eBook. It just funnels part of their profit from the sale of the ebook (after a fulfillment fee) to the library.
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