After rising steadily in the last decade, ebook and media budgets and circulation in U.S. public libraries have stalled as a percentage of the materials mix. In fact, though the circulation of downloadable media increased last year-up 14.6 percent for downloadable audio and 13.8 percent for downloadable movies-media circulation as a whole was down. But circulation did rise in one area: print books. Though print book budgets were generally flat, with fewer than one in five libraries reporting increases, print book circulation marched upward by two percent after having fallen significantly over the last five years. Still, print fiction, which has seen continuous growth in both expenditures and circulation over the last decade, saw its circulation tumble slightly compared with nonfiction.
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