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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Thanks. I was thinking stormcloude meant 17 loans per book as it seemed to follow the question about 27 times and I have never heard of a yearly license for ebooks. Is that what Simon and Shuster does?
Helen
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There was this quote in the first post of this thread:
S&S e-books are currently available through the 3M, Baker & Taylor and Overdrive platforms. Each title licensed by a library is usable for one year from the date of purchase...
That's where I got the 17 loans before the book expires. Of course that's a rough estimate that doesn't take into account people returning it early, but most people I know rarely do that. They just wait for it to expire. I can see it being economical for best sellers that are extremely popular for a short window of time, but I really can't see libraries paying year after year after year for a book that's only checked out a handful of times each year. And what about out of "print" ebooks? I've seen a few indie publishers go under in my preferred genre and if the book licenses expire, then access to those ebooks are gone permanently too.
I'm probably just too much of a bleeding-heart liberal hippie, but the whole idea of licensing ebooks sits wrong with me. It just seems like bph greed to me.