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Originally Posted by tilia
Instead of buying/leasing titles that can then be lend out to one person at a time, they pay per loan. So there is no waiting lines, but the library have to pay every time a book is borrowed.
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Sounds like the system Macmillan floated at one time for US borrowing (except IIRC they wanted libraries to buy the title
and pay per checkout), but US libraries said no way, not with the way their budgets are.