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Originally Posted by twobits
Yeah, I saw another reginal coop that charges its towns based on their populations. I think the charge based on the size of the collection your librarian sees is based on the way the coop reprocesses the charges and not directly based on how Overdrive charges for everything. I do think Adobe and Overdrive are making a decent amount of money from ebook lending as well.
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Absolutely.
And yet Macmillan and Simon & Schuster arent happy with the Overdrive system. They want more money. I believe Macmillan wanted to receive a fee per borrow which libraries oppose.
Libraries are good customers. With 17,000+ public libraries in the US an author can do reasonably well if each one purchased their hardcover. Add in all the education and corporate libraries plus e-books and you have significant sales. Also, add international sales to the total.