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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
The authors are paid out of a single "pot of cash" that is divided up across all books borrowed in a given period. The price of the book does not matter. They take all the borrows and some pre-set amount (this month I think that amount is 2 million) and divide it across the authors.
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And I bet some people might also read the book through KU and then decide they want to add author x's book to their permanent library and so the author's might gain a bit more income from sales generated that way too.