Thread: Amazon to launch Library Lending
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Old 04-23-2011, 06:05 PM   #321
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It's not 26 checkouts per year, it's 26 checkouts per book... if everyone only kept it for a week then the library would have to re-buy after 6 months...


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Originally Posted by stickybuns View Post
Libraries pay some sort of DRM certificate fee to OverDrive/Adobe each time a book is checked out, correct? Shorter loan periods mean that more Adobe DRM certificates will need to be issued each year, so that's not going to do anything to help the budget crunch.

Let's not forget that libraries also have the option to not make any changes: "OK, pre-Amazon Kindle, our yearly budget would allow 26 people to checkout this ebook for 14 days. And, post-Amazon Kindle... yup, budget is exactly the same. 26 people can read this book each year."
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