The libraries' purchases have remained at approximately the same level for the last ten years – but adjusted for inflation, purchasing costs have fallen by 19 percent during the period, according to the Swedish Publishers Association's report.
The fact that purchases constitute an increasingly smaller part of the market is also evident from the fact that libraries' costs for digital media have gone from 16 to 5 percent of the total market for digital books in ten years.
Over the ten-year period, libraries' digital loans have also more than doubled and the range of downloadable digital media titles has increased almost sixfold – but physical books still account for 90 percent of total lending.
