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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I doubt that they care if you de-DRM the book for your personal use but if they are charged a significant sum per loan (say $0.25 tp $1) and 2000 users each borrow 5 books per week, returning them automatically in 7 days this cost $2500 to $10,000 per week.
Even at $0.01 per book this is $100 a week and many libraries have more than 2000 ebook borrowers. And it is a rapidly expanding market.
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There must be some cost to setup the service, but the primary cost structure is based on buying the ebooks. This is the approach that libraries (and publishers) understand. So, if a library has a long waiting list for an ebook they can buy extra copies of that title. I am basing this on material that used to be on Overdrives web site but isn't there any more, so they may have changed their pricing model recently. However, libraries understand how to manage their budget by buying books - so it would be dangerous for OverDrive to switch to a different approach.