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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I finally got an answer from the library.
Sumter County has allotted specific funds for Hoopla checkouts for the fiscal year. Those funds are divided by 12 months and then by the number of days in the month to create a Daily Spending Limit. This process allows equitable access to Hoopla for Library cardholders. Reaching the Daily Spending Limit is based upon the cost of each checkout. Hoopla, and the publishers selling to Hoopla, set the costs of each checkout. The costs vary among publishers and formats (eAudio, eBooks, eComics, eVideo, and eMusic). The Library's average daily spending limit averages $280 per day.
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Five books per day is costing the library $280 per day? That's $56 per book. Maybe you should all get together and petition the County to discontinue the Hoopla service entirely. That's a lot of taxpayer dollars wasted. You can BUY an e-book from Amazon or Google Books for less than $20 and in most cases, less than $10, and when you're done reading it, it's still yours. No limits, daily or monthly. No need to reserve it - you buy it, it's downloaded to your device, and you can read it whenever you feel like it.