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Old 02-15-2012, 12:02 PM   #29
QuantumIguana
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Originally Posted by CyGuy View Post
Absolutely not. That is one of the advantages that an ebook has over the paper version, it does not wear out. There is no valid reason that an ebook would ever need to be repurchased.
I have given you nothing but facts. You might wish that a library could loan out a e-book forever, but that is not how it actually works.

He is the way that it works: a library buys a license for an e-book. That license allows the library to loan the e-book out x number of times. When that number of downloads is reached, the library must either purchase a new license or must cease loaning out the book.

Thus, a consortium of libraries pooling their purchases would result in the same number of purchases, as the number of downloads would remain the same, and the number of downloads determines the number of purchases.
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