{"id":758,"date":"2018-07-09T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/?p=758"},"modified":"2018-07-09T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:28:59","slug":"why-public-libraries-cant-buy-some-of-canadas-top-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/2018\/07\/09\/why-public-libraries-cant-buy-some-of-canadas-top-audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why public libraries can\u2019t buy some of Canada\u2019s top audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"trackContent-3 blur_effect hideRegistration\">\n<p>&#8220;\u201cAudiobooks have been popular for years and years at the library; now with digital they\u2019re our highest area of growth \u2014 they grew 40 per cent last year, so over 650,000 downloads &#8230; and we\u2019re projecting a million this year,\u201d said Susan Caron, director of collections and membership services with the Toronto Public Library, referring to a U.S. distributor of audiobooks.<\/p>\n<p>Even as demand grows, the library says it can\u2019t buy some popular titles. And it\u2019s worried that people who rely on the library to access books \u2014 those with a limited income or disabilities \u2014 are being shut out of reading some of the best Canadian titles out there.<\/p>\n<p>When the library buys a book, it doesn\u2019t pay the $25 cover price that consumers might pay if they bought a trade paperback edition. Audiobooks, for example, can cost from $75 up to $200, depending on the book. Most of the time, the library lends that book to one user at a time while keeping the hold list to six people. To do that they buy more books.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"trackContent-5 blur_effect hideRegistration\">\n<p>Here\u2019s an example using books from last week\u2019s bestseller list. The library, according to Maria Cipriano, senior collections specialist, figured Stephen King\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Outsider\u00a0<\/em>would be popular, so they ordered 20 copies at $129.57 each. That\u2019s $2,591.10.<\/p>\n<p>Even at those prices, there are still books they can\u2019t buy&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/books\/2018\/07\/06\/why-the-toronto-public-library-cant-buy-some-of-canadas-top-audiobooks.html\">Click here to read the rest of this article on Toronto Star&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cAudiobooks have been popular for years and years at the library; now with digital they\u2019re our highest area of growth \u2014 they grew 40 per cent last year, so over 650,000 downloads &#8230; and we\u2019re projecting a million this year,\u201d said Susan Caron, director of collections and membership services with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.prl.ab.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}