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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
Anyway, they rent the readers but not the eBooks? That seems a little ridiculus. It would make sense if they had done away with paperbooks and offered eBooks but wanted to still serve patrons w/o their own readers but, IMHO, we are a long way for where a library could/should do that.
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Only 3 of the Big 6 participate with Overdrive and even those that participate don't offer their entire ebook catalog. So lending ereaders with preloaded content is a way they can offer a better selection of books for patrons. Plus, they can technically lend the ebook out to more than one reader (e.g. Kindle allows 5 simultaneous uses). A lot cheaper than physical copies, even factoring in the cost of the ereader (which can be had for less than $100 now).