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In addition to the recommendations that triggered changes to the buying pool, other interesting pieces of data were revealed about our patrons from the WPLC Digital Collections Patron Survey:
- 13% of respondents who do use the library do not check out ebooks. The vast majority of that 13% exclusively check out audiobooks, and this information contributed to the decision to allocate more funds to audiobooks from the buying pool.
- Of those that do check out ebooks, the quantity of checkouts is fairly evenly distributed between the four options provided to respondents
- fewer than 5
- 6-10
- 11-20
- more than 20
- Most have either checked out fewer than five (45%) or more than 20 (29%) books from their physical library in the last six months.
- Most have purchased fewer than 5 books (71%) in the last six months.
- The three most popular ebook genres are Bestselling Fiction (1410 respondents), Mystery/Thriller (1117), and Romance (659); the least popular are Travel (139), Business (97), Information Technology (59).
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