Galleycat offers some video of librarians challenging HarperCollins recent decision to allow libraries a maximum of only 26 eBook loans before HarperCollins titles have to be re-purchased. This is based on HarperCollins estimate that 26 represents the number of times a print book can be loaned before it is worn out. We talked about it here.
As you can see from the video, 26 is rather a low number. It is clear from the video that while print library books do wear out they last much, much longer than the quoted 26 loans. If only HarperCollins had not been greedy, and picked a number like 50. I think people might have swallowed that.
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