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Originally Posted by batgirl
Gaps in series are not always the library's fault. I asked the Overdrive purchaser at my library to buy Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. They were able to purchase all but books 3,4, and 5. Three missing right in the middle. And they are available to purchase from ebookstores. But my library cannot purchase copies for the library to lend. So we now have a big gaping hole in our ebook series.
These holes are often the fault of publishers.
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Yeah, according to Ted Bohaczuk at the Philadelphia Free Library they also can't always get the same formats available at retail either. They try to always get ePub, but even though a book is available that way at retail sometimes the library can only get it in PDF.