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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
At $280 per day expense for "product" - and a 5-book-per-day limit for the entire county to download books, that comes to an average of $56 per book. You are saying everyone /can't/ check out books, because there's a 5 per day limit for the entire county.
If we are to go by what you are being told, the daily cost divides into the per-book cost by $56 per book. Unless you're saying the $280 per day is the total cost for the library to be open and in business, including all downloads, e-whatevers, electricity, maintenance, toilet paper for the rest rooms, internet service, employees, and purchase of physical product for their shelves? Or is that $280 for all online services, including internet service, a server, subscription to Hoopla, all other subscriptions, and all internet activities within the building as well?
I mean, this thread is about one specific service, and you toss in that $280/day factoid. If you mean that the $280/day covers anything OTHER than the 5 books per day per county, it's a good idea to say so. But if we are to go by ONLY what we read here - it comes to an average of $56 per book, at 5 books per day, divided into a total of $280 per day allotment.
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I was originally told that the library - not each patron - is limited to 5 Hoopla items a day. That seemed incredibly low so I sent an email to the library and I got the response that Hoopla has a budget of $280 day.
I am positive that the 5 Hoopla items a day is wrong.
Instead, the library has a Hoopla budget of $280 a day. From what I was told, the Hoopla budget does not include internet service, a server, subscription to Hoopla, all other subscriptions, and all internet activities within the building as well. It is just for Hoopla.
I went online and it appears that Hoopla charges libraries anywhere from $1 per checkout to $3 per checkout. I don't have the numbers for Sumter but I would expect that our numbers are similar to that. If that is the case, the library is allowed anywhere from 280 items a day to 93 items a day.
We are not spending $56 for each book.
I am still trying to get exact numbers for these services. I would love to know how much it would cost to use Libby and what Hoopla charges per item.