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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
Wait... what? So if I choose to borrow an ePub instead of a Kindle version of a book, I'm costing my library an extra 8¢? I wish I'd known that earlier.
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It's factored into the administrative fees places like OverDrive charge (I believe it's a contacted annual rate), but yes Adobe gets a fee every time their DRM is applied. It's less that a 'permanent' license which last I knew was $.22 and if I'm recalling correctly it's $.08 per checkout. It's one of the reason long time OD using libraries saw big increases in their annual fees from OD, more people, by a large factor, got into ebooks and library checkouts. I have zero idea if Amazon gets any kind of fee for Kindle checkouts. I'm guessing no as they get other benefits, but that's just a guess.