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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There's a lot of people who use Overdrive and those do not count as sales.
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The more titles I borrow using Overdrive, Cloud Library, and Axis 360, the more licenses the libraries buy. So eBook public library borrowing does help sales.
The same is true for public library paper book borrowing. However, because a library eBook generates more revenue for the distributor than a paper book, the public library sales connection is a lot higher for eBooks than paper books.
Of course, the total cost of ownership, to the library, is not necessarily higher for an eBook than a paper copy because the eBook doesn't occupy space that can cost hundreds of dollars over the decades for rent/contruction, utilities, salaries, etc.
One thing I don't know: Suppose the library pays three times more for the eBook than the paper copy. How is the 3x revenue split between distributors like Overdrive, the publisher, and authors who previously earned out their advances?