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Originally Posted by Blossom
Exactly, specially all those expensive Random House and Harpercollins titles. Either the library only pays a fee to access it from another library who buys the books or they just wasted alot of money.  |
As I understand it, there are two fees. There is a fee for the overdrive software/use/participating. Then there is a fee for each book. The number of times a book can be checked out varies as does the expiration of the license. Some books "expire" after 12 months and have to be repurchased/re-leased. The prices of books vary quite widely as well. From what I understand if a book is "shared" across a consortium, they pay for the book as if it is one library (but it can only be checked out by one patron at a time).