Probably budget constraints would be pretty huge. It would cost a lot to license all the media, and pay the other costs you would need to pay to run something on par with Netflix-type services.
It would take any library that does this in a competitive way more to run this service than they spend on everything else combined.
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Date: 2018-12-16 04:45 am (UTC)It would take any library that does this in a competitive way more to run this service than they spend on everything else combined.
It appears that Netflix programming/licensing costs are about $20/user/quarter or $80/yr. (and Netflix has other costs, distribution costs/bandwidth would also be huge) https://www.statista.com/statistics/770096/netflix-programming-costs-per-customer/
The total cost of operation for the average public library in 2014 is $42/yr/eligible user http://www.ala.org/news/state-americas-libraries-report-2014/public-libraries