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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
The disabled are covered by homebound library services. As for the poor, there probably are some people living in poverty, on this board, who are obvious exceptions, but the poor disproportionately lack eReaders, and tend to use the library for purposes that require physical presence anyway, such as getting on a computer to apply for a job.
As for the overworked, you have me there. That's an excellent point.
Right now, in the US, the only big publisher that thoroughly cooperates with Overdrive seems to be the biggest, Random House. It's not that I want Random House to start requiring physical presence. It's that anything from Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, etc. would be better than the nothing we have now. I don't want to give them the impression that starting to cooperate a little with Overdrive would give them worse publicity than they now experience staying out.
As I have learned in this thread, publishers already sent up a physical presence trial balloon in October, and got a lot of negative feedback about this being a war on libraries and so forth. And, since then, nothing good has happened in terms of more publishers cooperating with Overdrive. |
Problem is, in many many areas, there are no home library services. Some areas, they do have bookmobiles, but they're limited to schools.
As far as the schedule, the libraries near me are open from 9am-5pm. I work 9 to 6, so I generally can't go in. Pretty much everyone I know is at work those house. That leaves Saturday (closed on sundays), as the only time to go in, and they have limited hours then too.
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
So those 18-and-ups are reading the digital versions of the Golden books?! I had no idea there was an age limit. |
Uhm, I'm 27, and I recently read the first dozen or so Encyclopedia Brown books, and just read some of the Boxcar Children books.