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It is not possible for a single physical book to be read by hundreds of thousands of people, concurrently. an ebook enables this. I think a more apt example is
by suriyaG 4y ago
It is not possible for a single physical book to be read by hundreds of thousands of people, concurrently. an ebook enables this.
I think a more apt example is, if the library started printing the books and giving it out themselves.
- ryoshu 4y agoMost libraries have ebooks these days.
- ok_dad 4y agoThey’re limited to a certain number of loans before the library has to buy another license, or a per-checkout fee. Physical books have about a 50 to 100 checkout lifetime and ebook licensing is similar.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoNot the library I go to for ebooks.
- matwood 4y agoThere are quite a few different purchasing and lending models libraries use today. Outside of the big 4/5 publishers, many publishers will sell ebooks to libraries using a sim use model (pay 1 subscription fee and checkout as many times as possible over the period), and some will even let the library buy in that model perpetually.