Very different costs involved for the library. Instead of loaning some 7 year old kid a 5 dollar paperback, you gotta lend him a much more fragile 200 dollar K

Very different costs involved for the library. Instead of loaning some 7 year old kid a 5 dollar paperback, you gotta lend him a much more fragile 200 dollar Kindle. Not to mention you need to stock enough Kindle for every patron who might want one in addition to purchasing licenses for the books. Right now, every book can be lent out individually. A library might have lent out all it's copies of a specific title, but as long as there's a single book left in the building, they've still got something to lend. It seems like that simplifies capacity planning quite a bit as opposed to the model of having to provider readers as well as ebooks.