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Do you have a reference for that? My previous experience working at a library and a brief web search leads me to believe 26 checkouts is significantly above av

• Mindless2112 6y ago
  I don't have any statistics on physical books, but anecdotally the physical books I check out from the library happen to be much older than 2 years and still in good condition -- perhaps survivorship bias combined with my preference in books. For ebooks there's this: > Macmillan’s claim of only making $1.15 per book is incredibly misleading, Potash argued. “Seventy-nine percent expired and were removed from library catalogs because the two-year limit occurred first—not because they were checked out 52 times,” he said. In reality, the average is about 11.5 lends. According to Potash, the cost to the library is $6.07 every time someone borrows a Macmillan book.[1] [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa78wv/one-of-americas-largest-publishers-is-screwing-over-libraries https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa78wv/one-of-americas-large...
• jandrese 6y ago
  I don't know about today, but judging from the old checkout cards my library used to use when I was a kid books could be checked out quite a bit more than 26 times. The average would be quite a bit lower because many books are only rarely checked out. One thing I dislike about library ebooks is how thin the selection is. It should be trivial for the publisher to offer every ebook ever published. It's insane that they felt the need to port the concept of scarcity to the digital world. ebooks should have something like the compulsory licensing system used for songs.