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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
For example: having 51 books on each of 12 kindles, means 612 books paid for (one hopes) by the public constantly out of circulation, assigned to the kindle reader borrowers, who may not even want to read those books. And while Harry Bloom can still read 3 books an hour, most of us would be hard pressed to read 2-3 books a day, so why 51 books for a 3 week loan.
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Many ebooks have licenses allowing them to be loaded on 6 or more devices at once, you are over counting. Obviously not all books will appeal to all readers, so having a decent number of books provides enough selection for a wide variety of people.
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And why kindle. AFAIK few if any kindle books are available for library loan in Canada. Some kindle readers are not even sold to Canadians.
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Perhaps that's exactly the reason, since Kindle books aren't available any other way in libraries here. It wouldn't surprise me if Amazon donated or heavily discounted the devices and the books to promote them.