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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Somehow I rather mistrust their likelihood of lowering the price to paperback levels after a year.
As for 26 loans covering the highest demand titles for a year: ahahaha… no.
Of the three Steig Larsson The Girl Who… titles that have been available to the 4.5 million potential e-book library patrons throughout my entire province which were added to the catalogue on June 11, 2010, here's the stats for how many copies they've got and who's still waiting:
Dragon Tattoo: 35 copies, 113 patrons on waiting list.
Played With Fire: 21 copies, 72 patrons on waiting list.
Kicked the Hornet's Nest: 33 copies, 156 patrons on waiting list.
And keep in mind that some of the participating libraries are "Overdrive Advantage" subscribers who buy extra copies just for their patrons which won't show in the system unless I've got a library card for them.
And people have been reading these books since June, which if we assume a 2 week loan expiry to go with the "26 reads per year" model, means that approximately 560 patrons could have read the Dragon Tattoo book alone since then.
Under the HarperCollins model, we'd have to subscribe to 21+ years of availability for just the 8 months. Oh well, maybe they just don't read very much over at HC HQ.
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maybe they're just acting dumb in the hopes that someone, and maybe even they, will believe what they're saying? o_o