The Sword and Laser discussion

I know we've talked about it here before, but Planet Money's Indicator (a podcast from NPR that is a bite-size look at a topic in economics) did a show about how much libraries pay for ebooks vs. paper and how Open Library is fighting to kind of disrupt that. I thought it was interesting, and thought some of y'all might find it interesting, too. Or if you didn't know how crazy ebook pricing is for libraries...eye-opening.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/111828...

Different approach from another country (and continent). It’s true that in Poland we do not have infrastructure to borrow individual ebooks from libraries. But there is another solutuion: monthly quota of one-month access to legimi.pl - a subsciption service giving access to about 140000 ebooks and audiobooks. Have no idea how it works financially, but publishers keep on making their books accessible via Legimi – including premieres.