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Originally Posted by ATDrake
You're assuming what seems an artificially low price for the HC copy, paid for at what look like mass-market paperback prices.....
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No, I'm assuming a $10 ebook price, with Harper Collins giving a 20% discount, and the competitor jacking up the price by 150%. I tried to be very clear about that assumption, and the qualifier that the HC
only really works out if that assumption is correct.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
And the library would still get only 1 year + 1 month's worth of usage out of the new-model HC book, whereas an old-model HC/non-HC book could stay in the catalogue for years.
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Mostly correct, except that we're talking 13 months of constant checkouts.
The titles only expire with uses, not with time. If people check out an obscure title 10 times when it first comes out, it stays on the "digital shelves" until it's checked out another 16 times, even if that takes 10 years.
26 most likely is low a number, but the renewal problem isn't going to be any different than a paper book that wears out.
To be clear, I'm not saying this is an optimal system, only that it isn't the train wreck some people imagine it is.