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Originally Posted by Tony1988
How many physical copies of a new release did librarys have BEFORE ebooks??
I am guessing less.
How many people were on a waiting list for a physical copy?? I doubt over 200.
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I can only speak for my library system (Nashville Metro). For paper books, popular new releases have several (sometimes 100) copies that are initially distributed to the branches and are then moved around the county system as demand (and returns) dictated. These copies are assigned a "home branch" and so would show up in the calatog something like this:
Bellevue The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo due on 2/27/12 + 1 hold
Bellevue The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo due on 2/15/12
Green Hills The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo due on 2/16/12
Looby The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo due on 2/21/12 + 2 holds
...and so on. You see which copies are available and could request that any of them be put on your holds and sent to your local branch, or the branch nearest your work, or whatever worked for you.
Current search indicates that this particular book has
87 paper copies in the library system, and
21 ebook copies. The ebook version has 70 holds waiting. The paper version is harder to calculate because it has to be done line-by-line and I'm not manually adding them up. Plus, ebook holds are done as "next available" and paper books are handled differently.