Trade eBooks in Libraries by Paul Whitney Christina de Castell

Author:Paul Whitney, Christina de Castell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2017-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

7.5Denmark

Mikkel Christoffersen198

Public libraries in Denmark are the responsibility of the 98 municipalities, supporting a total population in Denmark of 5.7 million. The largest municipality, Copenhagen, has 592,000 citizens, while the smallest, Læsø, has 1,800. Municipalities are further united in six different regions each with a designated central library with various coordinating functions. In 2014, the libraries had collections of 16.1 million physical books that were collectively checked out 27.5 million times by library users; 1.8 million unique users throughout the country borrowed at least one physical item in 2014. Denmark’s libraries spent €31 million ($34 million US) buying physical books in 2014.

There are now estimated to be close to 28,000 unique eBooks in Danish available through traditional market channels in Denmark and 7,000 digital audio-books. The commercial market share of eBooks is impossible to measure at the moment, but is believed to be 5%-10% of the total book market. Digital audio-books are estimated to be a much larger part of the total audiobook market than their eBook brethren. Also, as digital audiobooks are now experiencing a commercial breakthrough, eReolen is no longer the completely dominant platform for this medium as was the case only a few years ago.

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