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Old 02-07-2011, 10:45 AM   #31
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I would not mind them being children' eBooks as that's OK. But to be eBooks that are of no value to most people other then frustrated housewives is not worth the bother.
I should say I don't object to children's books in general! But I am surprised that they are a target market for ebooks - I guess they are more for people with iPads rather then e-ink devices.

It would just be nice if there was more balance in their book ordering - 100 books of a single genre at once seems strange.
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:59 AM   #32
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My library system made a big deal out of ordering loads of new ebooks around the holidays. Some of them are good, and it's a nice change from how the catalog used to be - before this it was mostly self-help books.

I do have to question their wisdom a bit, though, as a lot of the books they've bought are later books in a series - so, they'll have, say, number 11 available as an ebook, but not numbers 1-10. In some cases they don't even have the other books in the series as pbooks!

Sigh. I should probably stop being so picky. :P
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Old 02-07-2011, 11:04 AM   #33
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who cares about local libs? This is the internet, a global network. I'm much more concerned over Gutenberg's collection than some local bunch of a few of the same offerings...
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Old 02-07-2011, 12:45 PM   #34
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My library used to have say Book 1 & 3 of a series but not Book 2! They have really improved lately. I suggest that you file a feedback form with your library. Mine sent out a survey and one of my suggestions was to improve their series offerings. My library adds several hundred books every month. They have good variety. However it is clear that sometimes they have done a mass acquisition of catalogs from certain authors that month. It seems that mysteries and thrillers gets much focus at my library, which is fine for me.
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Old 02-07-2011, 02:09 PM   #35
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I would not mind them being children' eBooks as that's OK. But to be eBooks that are of no value to most people other then frustrated housewives is not worth the bother.
Well, I am a Harvard-educated lawyer, and I find romances to be just the thing after thumbing through the Internal Revenue Code all day. Just think of it as Weather Channel, for women.
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Old 02-07-2011, 02:27 PM   #36
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Free Library of Philadelphia has a decent and expanding selection of e-books; cost of a library card for nonresidents is only $15 a year.
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And they are very pleasent to deal with. I've requested about 20 ebooks (I've been a member for ~9 months), and they always try to get what I request.

Thank you FLP.
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:55 PM   #37
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I would not mind them being children' eBooks as that's OK. But to be eBooks that are of no value to most people other then frustrated housewives is not worth the bother.
Must be why Romance outsells every other genre huh? Cause their of no value to most people.
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Old 02-07-2011, 11:25 PM   #38
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Paperback romance of the disposable Harlequin-type alone took up 4 entire 4-column spinner-racks at the physical library branch I visited over the weekend (it also had an entire row-length bookcase, filled on both sides, of hardcover/TPBs in the "permanent" section).

By contrast, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Horror was in 2nd place with 3 spinner-racks and SF/Fantasy combined with (sigh) 1 1/2. And part of one of the SF/F/H spinner columns was filled with what looked to be paranormal romance.

The province-wide e-library, on the other hand, tends to mainly get in literary and bestseller-type general fiction, DIY cooking/crafts/personal finance for dummies and political/pop-history non-fiction, with occasional surges of romance and mystery.

Clearly somebody's reading them, and I don't mind as long as it helps subsidize the acquisition of my own preferred (and obviously less popular) genres.
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romance is a top selling book genre JSWolfe.
Porn is also a top selling book genre.
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Porn is also a top selling book genre.
True, and sometimes Romance and Porn aren't all that dissimilar.
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Completely a crapload of crap. Out of the 40 new eBooks, most are from Harlequin and only 2 are not romance. One is a vampire novella and the other is a rather useless suspense novel since it is the third in a series and DC does not have the other two. So really, this batch of eBooks may as well not have been purchased.
Sez you! I checked out a bunch of them--this is where I feed my Harlequin addiction...
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I would not mind them being children' eBooks as that's OK. But to be eBooks that are of no value to most people other then frustrated housewives is not worth the bother.
I'm not a frustrated housewife. I'm a frustrated IT professional.

True they mostly appear to be from Harlequin. If they're under a budget crunch, that might explain it because Harlequin e-books are about a third of the price of bestseller (I can get them for $3.30, not $9.99, thank goodness)
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Yeah. My local library system just got in the game and since I'm a PA resident with this Access PA designation on my library card, it apparently gives me a free FLP membership too which I just sent in. Cool! I also can deal with waits. My local system doesn't have a huge selection, but it's more than I thought too, and I did take out one book just to try. I have an iPad so I use Overdrive which isn't optimized for the iPad but does work. It also does not offer PDF books for loan, only ePub, but hey, I'll take what I can!!!
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My library system made a big deal out of ordering loads of new ebooks around the holidays. Some of them are good, and it's a nice change from how the catalog used to be - before this it was mostly self-help books.

I do have to question their wisdom a bit, though, as a lot of the books they've bought are later books in a series - so, they'll have, say, number 11 available as an ebook, but not numbers 1-10. In some cases they don't even have the other books in the series as pbooks!

Sigh. I should probably stop being so picky. :P
You should be picky. It means you cannot read these series without buying some of the books. They should look at what they have and what's out there before getting incomplete series.
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Well, I am a Harvard-educated lawyer, and I find romances to be just the thing after thumbing through the Internal Revenue Code all day. Just think of it as Weather Channel, for women.
As Lewis Black said...

It [The Weather Channel] is the most watched cable channel in America. I'll repeat that. It is the most watched cable channel in America. They were worried about the terrorists immobilizing us, and a portion of our countrymen watch weather. 'Kay, you don't get any more immobile than that... unless you're in a goddamn coma. That means you're saying, "I'd go to the window, but it's too far." If you want to know what the weather is you go to a window and stick your hand out and if you want to know what the temperature is you drive by a bank.
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