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Originally Posted by booklover6
So in another thread a librarian has been reported as saying libraries pay Overdrive $90 for an audio book (to be renewed yearly?). So if 100 people listen to the book during the year, you might say the author group (author, narrator, publisher, etc) made .90 per listen. Or if 200 people check the book out, it gets reduced to .45 per listen.
So in this example, the author group can actually make MORE via Audible Romance Package listens, for popular books, than they do from library borrows. (And Audible Romance Package books are borrows, not purchases).
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I'm sure romance listens are different, but 100 borrows a year for an audiobook strike me as very rapid turnover and 200 flatly impossible. Both scenarios require short books and aggressive turnover and even so. Some of the books on my wishlist show up as available in the Audible Romance Package, but they're Victorian novels and run about 20 hours, more or less. When borrowed from OverDrive, I would imagine they take pretty much the entire borrowing period.