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Bookworm_Girl · 12-02-2014, 01:01 PM

Thanks for the explanation on how book buying works.

My consortium was 11 members and is now 9 after mine and another city have dropped out. Although 1 of the members actually represents 15 smaller cities.

My library is saying that the prime motivation for switching systems is customer experience. Being able to have more freedom to buy the books that their users want (rather than what the consortium wants) is listed as one of the reasons they have changed. It's just that my library picked 3M, and the other city that dropped out picked Overdrive. I've been trying to research more about the other city to find out why they dropped from the consortium too. Losing 2 big cities has got to put more cost pressure on the cities remaining in the consortium. I wonder how those other city libraries feel about it.

12-02-2014, 01:01 PM	#82
Bookworm_Girl E-reader Enthusiast Posts: 4,873 Karma: 36536965 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Southwest, USA Device: Kindle Oasis 3; Kobo Aura One; iPad Mini 5	Thanks for the explanation on how book buying works. My consortium was 11 members and is now 9 after mine and another city have dropped out. Although 1 of the members actually represents 15 smaller cities. My library is saying that the prime motivation for switching systems is customer experience. Being able to have more freedom to buy the books that their users want (rather than what the consortium wants) is listed as one of the reasons they have changed. It's just that my library picked 3M, and the other city that dropped out picked Overdrive. I've been trying to research more about the other city to find out why they dropped from the consortium too. Losing 2 big cities has got to put more cost pressure on the cities remaining in the consortium. I wonder how those other city libraries feel about it.