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Originally Posted by GeoffR
(I know this is an old thread, but I think the subject is still relevant.)
From what I can see now, neither the Belgariad nor the Malloreon series are available for sale as ebooks anywhere.
But my local public library still has all the ebooks from both series available for loan in its OverDrive collection, published by Transworld (Penguin Random House UK).
It seems like a strange situation, but I guess the library purchased the ebooks back before they were withdrawn from sale and have not yet used up their time or loan quota?
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Weird. A good thing that I bought them while they were available. I seem to recall reading that libraries buy a license to loan the book x number of times (50 was the number used in the article).
Way back when ebooks were first coming out, I thought for sure that once someone made an ebook available, that it would just stay available. I mean, that's really the point of ebooks from a publisher point of view. Since there is minimal storage cost (as opposed to paper books), you just get a steady stream of purchases.
It does seem though that this happens more often when the author is dead. I guess typically the heir is less interested in having the book out there.