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Originally Posted by Mr. Goodbar
This brings up an off topic question. How are authors compensated for library books? I always figured they got some level of royalties based on checkouts, but I wonder how that compares to an actual purchase and if they have any control over whether their book can go in a library.
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Depends on the country. In the UK I know there is some form of payment based on borrows (or at least there is for paper books, I'm assuming there is with ebooks too), but I don't know if it amounts to anything more than a token amount or not.
In the US there is no extra compensation based on borrows. I would hope they get their royalties paid based on the inflated price some pubs charge for library ebooks (up to 3 times retail cover price) and for the publishers that use the expiring ebook model (after X number of borrows) the author should be getting paid each time a new copy has to be purchased.
Not sure about elsewhere.
In general it's up to the publisher whether an ebook is available to libraries or not.