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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
No, OverDrive, or a corporate partner, owns the book. The library leases it.
OverDrive will lease it in EPub format, or Mobipocket format, or as an audiobook. The few libraries that lease in both EPub and Mobipocket have to pay more for that right than for EPub alone, and this probably results in more revenue going back to the author. (I say probably because it depends on how many copies total the library leases, and whether the books are almost always out, and on the lease rates.)
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Thanks for the correction. I assumed that the library bought the ebooks, just as you or I would. But it doesn't change the point I was making, which is that the borrower does not own the book, someone else does, and that might restrict the rights of the borrower in a way that it would not if he were the owner.
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If someone could invent a rock-solid way to keep Kindle users from viewing EPub books, there would be more books sold and authors would make more money.
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Why do you think this?