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Originally Posted by Renate
So, ballpark number, what's a single read cost a library?
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For a single ebook, the average library price the last time I was looking into it was about 3 to 4 times the retail price with some costing even more. This is for an ebook licensed for 24 months or 52 checkouts whichever comes sooner. As an example, the price charged my local library for J. D. Robb's
Passions in Death. This is published by the St. Martin's Publishing Group an imprint of Macmillan. The library paid $71 Cdn for a 24 month/52 checkouts license so a cost of ~$1.37 Cdn per checkout. Since this was expected to be popular, the library purchased 3 copies and currently has an ~6 week wait time.
You can find quite a bit of information around the Internet. One example being:
The Real Costs of Digital Content: eBook and Digital Audiobooks.
A bit humourous in that @salamanderjuice and I both picked the same article.