The super cited the low
book circulation numbers as his reasoning for eliminating the librarians.
In a finding that speaks to the vital role that libraries play, it was those libraries that serve rural communities that reported the highest
book circulation numbers, largely due to the lack of bookstores in these communities and the unavailability of «one day delivery lockers» or Sunday delivery from online retailers.
The super cited the low
book circulation numbers as his reasoning for eliminating the librarians.
Not exact matches
Jeannette Woodward, author of a
number of
books, including The Transformed Library: E-
Books, Expertise, and Evolution said «Trade publishers have always had an unrealistic idea of library
circulation,» she says.
For example, Simon & Schuster doesn't license for e-
book lending at all, and HarperCollins just introduced a policy to limit the
number of loans per licensed e-
book to 26, in an apparent move to mimic the lifespan of a physical
book in library
circulation.
Cell phone
book clubs could fit in with existing library programs and boost library -
book circulation, which, even with a
number of well - off «power readers» to raise the average in Alexandria, is only mediocre following years of underfunding for content.
ISBN applies to the physical copy of a
book and does not come with copyright protection: ISBN is basically a catalogue
number helping to identify a specific format or edition of a
book in
circulation.
Publishers however, are limiting the
number of
circulations a
books can have, or they are simply not allowing their eBooks to be loaned and then there are the distributors.
I look at the print
numbers, I look at
circulation, and this
book that could have changed the way that people think, it sold at its max, maybe 1,000 copies.
The glut of high - quality low - cost ebooks will get worse - In the old days of print publishing, the
number of
books in
circulation was artificially constrained by the production output of traditional publishers, and by the shelf space available at brick and mortar retailers.