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ScalyFreak - The public library here has the same problem, and it drives me nuts! There was a series I was half-interested in, but they only had books 3 and 4 in it, not even the first one, and they don't carry any print copies, so how am I supposed to try out a new series and author, unless I buy or accept the interlibrary loan charges for it? I'm just being cheap, but I don't make much money as both a library student and library employee.
I think OverDrive throws freebie titles into the mix, and librarians accept those because, hey, something's better than nothing, and they don't look too closely at the freebie titles, since they need to select what the library will "purchase." Now, why OverDrive would have some books in a series and not others - and out of order to boot - I have no idea. It could be that the publisher hasn't converted all of them to ebook yet? We already know that they treat ebooks like unwanted stepchildren and don't seem to care if they're full of typos or horrid formatting, so I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't looked to closely at what they make available beyond "Is this one still making money? Okay, let's charge more for that."
These are all assumptions. The librarians who deal with OverDrive don't seem to want to talk about its innards that much when I've asked, other than to confirm that although they "purchase" books from them, they're really buying a long-term license until OverDrive pulls the plug.
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