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Never paid that much attention to the costs of these kind of long distance memberships (very, very lucky with my local libraries), but usually when I see ALA comments (complaints) about new-release book licenses they’re in the $60+ range per license. Not sure about Freading, but I also saw articles about Hoopla a while back that it was so unexpectedly popular the usage fees were wiping out library budgets early in the year and they had to throttle back user checkouts. Or cancel the service. I just can’t imagine the $50 fees from out of state could even be break-even. From a tax payer’s POV I would not be thrilled if my library offered those types of membership - that could be another pushback that Philadelphia is seeing.
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