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Originally Posted by rkomar
Here in Vancouver, the ebooks are actually from an external organization that the library pays for providing the lending service. Take away everything but the ebook lending, and you're left with nothing in the city. Maybe the city could negotiate with the ebook lending service themselves, but if they would be willing to pull the plug on local libraries, I can't see them paying for external services either. Maybe things are different where you are, but I'd be leery of undermining local library services if you still want to be able to borrow ebooks online later.
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eBooks here are also provided by OverDrive. You don't even need a library system to provide this service.
I'm not undermining local libraries. There are too many branches and I want some of them to shut down.