Given the numbers, he said, it’s almost inconceivable that library lending could be adversely impacting Tor’s retail e-book sales.Īt the high end of the spectrum: the New York Public Library reports holding 1,168 e-book editions of 500 individual Tor titles The Brooklyn Public Library holds 1,096 copies of 614 Tor titles.įurther down the list, The Sno-Isle (Wash.) Libraries hold 812 copies of 685 titles The Central Ohio Digital Downloads Collaboration (which represents 18 systems) holds 690 copies of 396 Tor titles The Massachusetts Library System holds 160 copies of 147 titles The Santa Clara (Calif.) County District Library holds 182 copies of 182 Tor titles. As an organizer of the group ReadersFirst, a coalition of more than 300 libraries dedicated to improving e-book access for library patrons, Blackwell has been informally polling fellow ReadersFirst libraries about their Tor e-book holdings. Mary’s County Library (Md.) has also been looking at the numbers. Kenney said the combined OverDrive platform of the Westchester Library System, which serves 38 libraries in the populous suburbs of New York City, holds just 38 copies of Tor e-books.
“We certainly aren’t having a negative impact on sales,” maintained Brian Kenney, a PW columnist and director of the White Plains (N.Y.) Public Library, after looking at the numbers from his own library.
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