FOI Request - Digital Library Services
Request 101002550444
Please provide me with information relating to your council’s library services/ digital library catalogue.
For each of the below categories (where applicable) please tell me the top five most-downloaded/ viewed items in your library service between March 23-July 15 2020, and how many times each was viewed/ downloaded.
• eBook Fiction
• eBook NonFiction
• eBook Children’s Fiction
• eAudiobook Fiction
• eAudiobook Children’s Fiction
Response 13-08-2020
eBook Fiction issues 23/03/2020 - 15/07/2020
1) A Small Weeping - Alex Gray (44 issues)
2) Rogue Killer - Leigh Russell (32)
3) The French House - Nick Alexander (30)
4) First Thrills - Lee Child (ed) (29)
5) The Lost Lights of St Kilda - Elisabeth Gifford (24)
eBook Non-fiction issues 23/03/2020 - 15/07/2020
1) The Mammoth Book of Bizarre Crime - Robin Odell (11 issues)
2) Peterhead: the inside story of Scotland's toughest prison - Robert Jeffrey (10)
3) North Korea Journal - Michael Palin (10)
4) Another Fine Mess - Tim Moore (9)
5) The King in the North - Gordon Noble (7)
eBook children's issues 23/03/2020 - 15/07/2020
1) There's a Yeti in the Playground - Pamela Butchart (7 issues)
2) Amelia Fang and the Naughty Caticorns - Laura Ellen Anderson (6)
3) The Day I became the Most Wanted Boy in the World - Tom McLaughlin (6)
4) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J K Rowling (6)
5) Alex Rider - Anthony Horowitz (5)
eAudiobook Fiction issues 23/03/2020 - 15/07/2020
1) A Single Thread - Tracy Chevalier (35 issues)
2) In a House of Lies - Ian Rankin (33)
3) Grown-Ups - Marian Keyes (32)
4) Westwind - Ian Rankin (31)
5) Normal People - Sally Rooney (29)
eAudiobook children's 23/03/2020 - 15/07/2020 (teenage material not classified by our supplier as children’s eAudio)
1) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J K Rowling (65 issues)
2) The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman (21)
3) La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman (16)
4) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling (7)
5) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling (7)
6) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling (7)
7) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling (7)
eAudiobook children's 23/03/2020 - 15/07/2020 (classed as children's eAudio)
1) Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp - Philip Pullman (4)
2) Wild Boy - Rob Lloyd Jones (3)
3) Harry and the Dinosaurs - Ian Whybrow (3)
4) Spy Cat - Andrew Cope (2)
5) Chicken Dance - Jacques Couvillion (2)
There were many others with 2 issues but these are the top alphabetically