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Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.

Any Kindle owner should go find out how easy it is to get library books on their Kindle. It’s totally the way to go. You don’t have to buy their shit and deal with their rules.

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SemioticStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Every single fucking time I try to get an ebook from my library there is a wait list weeks or even months long.

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- scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s a shame. They need more licenses per book, it sounds like. But at least your community is highly engaged with your library!
  
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  - Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Borrow the hardback
    
    The digital titles often come with a price tag that’s far higher than what consumers pay. While one hardcover copy of Cook’s latest novel costs the library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy – a price that can’t be haggled with publishers.
    
    And for that, the e-book expires after a limited time, usually after one or two years, or after 26 check outs, whichever comes first. While e-books purchased by consumers can last into perpetuity, libraries need to renew their leased e-material.
    
    staradvertiser.com/…/libraries-battle-publishers-…
    
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    scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This might actually make sense. Borrowers can’t lose or destroy a digital copy, or bring it back late. Probably a digital copy enables more checkouts. Max of 26? Well think about he condition if the last library book you checked out that had 26 stamps on the list. Hard copies don’t last forever. Sad that they had to charge more based on these assumptions, but you can imagine some reasoning to them.
    
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