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Old 08-31-2011, 10:58 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by l_macd View Post
Understandable to a point I guess. However, while there are plenty of areas of the country that don't provide this service, in the areas that do (as long as there isn't problems with availability), what's so wrong with allowing 'out-of-area' borrowers?
I believe imagine it's because Overdrive charges fees to the library based on the size of their membership, so if a library has, say, 20,000 members, but then 100,000 people try to borrow e-books, the usage would be much greater than anticipated.
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