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Originally Posted by mikaelalind
When you consider that all e-books are converted by Elib, and a majority of e-books are in swedish, written by swedish authors. It is unlikely that the libraries will get e-books in english. Which is a shame.
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I would expect a library to spend most money on native language books, and only have smaller selections of books in other languages - after all (I assume) most of its user base will prefer native language books. It's like that with p-books - why should it be different for e-books?
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Originally Posted by Slite
That is very true. But I still wish it would be possible to have Swedish libraries offer e-books written in the original language as well.
Though I do enjoy a lot of the swedish books that is offered. I've borrowed and read all of John Ajvide Lindqvists, Stieg Larssons and Mons Kalletofts books for instance.
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But e-books cost money as well. I wouldn't mind more English books myself, since there's hardly any new books in Danish published as e-books yet, but as far as I understand it, the main purpose of a library is to give the public access to a very wide variety of books, especially in the native language.
I think I'm also able to lend books via Elib through my library. I assume they have made an agreement. I found teh link on the libraries web site a while ago, but none of teh librarians I've asked about knew anything
And then the link was removed but I can still log in - but the selection is so small that, well....