Thread: Penguin ends library/Overdrive relationship starting tomorrow
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Old 02-15-2012, 10:57 AM   #124
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Originally Posted by dkperez View Post
Does anyone have real numbers on the way ebooks are being priced to libraries? In conversation, I was cited one instance by a librarian where a hard cover book was $24 while the corresponding ebook was $85. I can't say with certainty that it was Overdrive pocketing the extra 350 percent, but I find it difficult to believe.
As I said before, I've been donating $100 a month to my library for going on 7 months now. I send a wish list and they send back what they bought and the the individual prices of each. The Overdrive price for the books for the library is ALMOST ALWAYS (90% of the time) several dollars more.

In some cases, it's been double. I don't think OD is pocketing the difference; I think the publisher is.
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