09-04-2013, 10:49 AM
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Related: Lending of e-books not always easy for suburban libraries
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Anyone interested in reading author Dan Brown's latest best-seller, "Inferno," on a Kindle can download a copy for roughly $13.
But for many suburban libraries, downloading that same book so that it can be lent out to patrons costs $85.
That's a hefty difference in price, and it's one reason why public libraries have had difficulty keeping up with the demand for e-books in the suburbs.
"At $85 a copy for many popular titles, we just can't afford to buy that many," said Cathleen Blair, the readers' advisory librarian at the Mount Prospect Public Library. "We aren't able to provide patrons with something they clearly want." [...]
Aside from the price, there are often embargoes for certain works, and different limits on borrowing from publisher to publisher," Blair said. "It can get very confusing."
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