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Originally Posted by Ea
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?
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.... |
Thats kind of odd, since it seems that ELib in particular is very speedy in converting new books too E-books. I can usually pick up the e-book in my "local" library online of a swedish author very soon after it has been published in hardback.
Especially if we are talking about thriller and/or mystery authors. But I'm starting to get a bit bored with that genre at the moment, I sure wish they would extend their selection especially in their sci-fi and fantasy field.