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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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A 20 hour book is only 3 hours a day. One week. I do that all the time. All my audio book library check outs are set for 7 days.
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That's only 50 checkouts per year and not 100 or 200. Also, while I have no idea what's typical, three hours a day would be a lot of listening for me. A 20-hour book can take me three weeks and that's still an hour a day.
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I'm listening a lot less since I got a job, and MIL arrived. I gotta get those earbuds in more often! So...my daughter says I should drop boring books like that! (She heard me complain when something happened that was SO predictable). I'm sure she's right. When I finished that book I started The Darkest Warrior by Gena Showalter. I don't want to miss a WORD of this one! Last edited by booklover6; 07-22-2018 at 09:02 PM. |
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More copies of the book will allow more borrowers, but it also add more multiples of the $90 yearly cost. I assume. |
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