Thread: Why e-books, e-audiobooks could be harder to snag at your local library
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Old 07-04-2019, 05:46 AM   #53
John F
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
The cost of building a new library for 30,000 books, and then buying the books, and then maintaining and staffing it for, say, ten years, is higher than the cost of ten years of Overdrive for the same number of books. At least -- it is based on the $3 million cost just to renovate my local branch a few years ago.
Could you share the numbers?

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... Another possibility is that they just prefer paper to electronic.
Why not ask your library? Talking to my librarian, they are not happy about Random Penguin's new library ebook policy, and won't be purchasing their ebooks.

Doing a quick Google, I see libraries complaining about RP's new policy, I don't recall any in favor of it.
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