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I think the author does fairly well from Overdrive on the whole the way that I understand it. They get a sale registered for each acquisition (though that may cover a whole state as one sale grants access to all of the participating libraries in the group).There will be multiple copies bought if they're popular enough. That helps out financially and will help to spread the word. Authors will have the opportunity of selling work directly to libraries, too - there's always an option of suggesting a purchase or of someone to contact. From there it will be a case of a book being good enough.
The change also involved Scribd and Oyster, I think, so it surely makes the Smashwords package much more appealing all of a sudden. Or maybe not. I'll be watching here to see what people think.
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