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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
If it is cheaper for the library to stock a thousand more physical titles than a thousand more Overdrive titles, they probably should do the former -- especially if the economics allow a fair portion of the physical titles to be large print. However, I'd be surprised if the $84 for a perpetual eBook license isn't cheaper, all costs taken into account, than the $16.80 quoted in the article as the paper price.
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Going by my local library, the paper price is not quite perpetual as well. Popular books tend to wear out quite rapidly and need to be repaired/replaced. Very often a book that is beyond economic repair is simply scrapped and not replaced which does help keep the collection size down.