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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
With tighter budgets, libraries are feeling the crunch and are being forced into cutting back on services and even closing down some of their branches. With that in mind, would you be willing to pay a yearly fee ($25~$50) to checkout ebooks, music, videos and other e-content? Fees collected would only be used to support e-content. All other library services would remain "free".
This library in New Zealand is about to go live with ebooks, but will charge patrons for the service.
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I already pay a yearly fee and it's higher than 25 dollars a year. Approximately 17 dollars a month is taken out of my water bill MONTHLY to cover library and fire services. No library in the US is free. The money for books, salaries and other expenses comes out of a direct tax (such as the one showing on my water bill) or county or property taxes.
So, in long, no. I already pay a fee for the library services. It has gone up steadily EVERY year. It used to be 15 dollars per year. Then 20. Then they got the brilliant idea to put it in the water bill. The library fee, the first year was set at 6 dollars PER MONTH. Each year since, that fee has gone up.