Interesting.
Looking at the Seattle area as a whole (both King County and Seattle libraries), the area is at over 3M downloads. Apparently people who work for Microsoft and Amazon like digital content. Who would have guessed that?
The King County area only has 2M people vs 2.6M in just Toronto, so slightly higher per capita rates. That doesn't include the Ontario Library Service Consortium which also had 1M+ downloads but has ~13.6M people bringing up total books but dropping the per capita rate.
The other linked
data is also interesting.
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• Total digital titles borrowed from libraries & schools: 169 million (+24% over 2014)
o eBook circulation: 125 million (+19% growth over 2014)
o Digital audiobook circulation: 43 million (+36% growth over 2014)
o Streaming video circulation (+83% over 2014)
o Introduced in late 2014, the circulation of digital magazines and newspapers also grew significantly in 2015
• 33 library systems circulated 1 million or greater digital books during 2015
• Reader visits to OverDrive-powered library & school websites: 750 million (+14% increase from 2014)
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Top eBooks borrowed from libraries
1. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (Penguin Publishing Group)
2. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
3. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Crown/Archetype)
4. The Martian, Andy Weir (Crown/Archetype)
5. Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee (HarperCollins)
Top digital audiobooks borrowed from libraries
1. The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (Books on Tape)
2. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr (Simon & Schuster Audio)
3. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group)
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)
5. Yes Please, Amy Poehler (HarperCollins)
Top digital books borrowed from libraries in other categories
Adult nonfiction eBook: Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand (Random House Publishing Group).
Children/YA fiction eBook: The Maze Runner, James Dashner (Random House Children’s books).
Children/YA nonfiction eBook: Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson (Penguin Young Readers Group).
Children/young adult fiction audiobook: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (Pottermore)
Read-Along eBooks: Scaredy Squirrel at Night, Mélanie Watt (Kids Can Press Ltd.)
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