LIBRARIES are never going to
make money if they dish out books for free, the government has claimed.
New research found that the
average user spend per library visit is nothing, prompting ministers to
question the validity of the business model.
A government spokesman said:
“They deserve to be shut down if they insist on letting people take books, read
them and bring them back.
“Libraries should be more like
Amazon or Waterstone’s, where you pay a sum of cash for the book then keep it.
“But it appears that every
library in history has functioned this way, even the Great Library of
Alexandria built in 300 BC was a total failure if you look at revenues.
“It’s like librarians are some
sort of communists.”
Librarian Mary Fisher said:
“To turn a profit we’d probably need to charge overdue fees of about £1000 per
day, which is quite a hike from 2p.”
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