The organization's top executive, Vickery Bowles, said publishers charge vastly different prices to
libraries than average consumers, and the ebooks come also with many usage restrictions.
Not exact matches
While most print books are available to
libraries at a bit less
than the discounted
consumer cost at Amazon, these ebooks
average five times the Amazon
consumer price.
Recent surveys, including LJ's own Patron Profiles series, have indicated that the most frequent
library visitors also tend to purchase far more books
than the
average U.S.
consumer each year.