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What does errors in publisher books have to do with OverDrive per se?  |
Nothing, I think. I just wanted to specify where I got the books from in case someone recalled that I rarely buy eBooks and then questioned how I would even know.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I myself have noticed a depressing lack of backlist in OverDrive. Backlist -- THE most likely kind of ebook to be utterly mistreated by publishers.
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They say they offer 2 million titles. Some are just audiobooks, but most are eBooks. That's a lot of backlist. No library can afford to buy or lease more than a small portion of them. Is that what you meant?
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And I read far, far more than 50 books a year, and I don't focus on niche books (I believe you read a lot of academic-funded works?), and I have noticed the same trend as murg. And it isn't even limited to backlist.
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All books are niche books. Even #1 bestsellers are only read by a small portion of readers.
Maybe, oh, fifteen percent of the books I read are, in some way, academically funded (even if usually major-published). The last one I finished was a short memoir funded by government (Germany paid for the translation). It was published, in the US, by a
small independent publisher, and with an eBook price/word ratio much higher -- even with a discount -- than I'm seeing from those allegedly evil major publishers:
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/eb...d-have-shot-me
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(Aside -- biographies should all catch fire and die.)
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