From Inside Higher Ed:
The biggest problem with borrowing eBooks instead of buying is the selection. My NH consortium has 2,124 fiction eBooks and 227 nonfiction eBooks. Of these, only 398 fiction books and 26 nonfiction books are available to check out right now. The actual numbers are even worse, as not every book is available in Kindle format, but instead as an Adobe EPUB eBook (which can’t be read on a Kindle device).
Compared to what is on offer at Amazon the library eBook selection is spectacularly underwhelming. From Amazon, I can buy (right now) 352,366 fiction or 753,533 nonfiction Kindle books.
I’m hoping my NH consortium grows, and perhaps your public library has better Kindle book selections. (Does anyone publish comparative stats of available books by state consortiums?) For now, finding a library Kindle book that I want to read is a matter of luck and waiting.
More in the article. Thanks to Michael von Glahn for the link.
