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Who pays Amazon for Public Library books?
I download free books from my Public Library and have 21 days to read them. When I check them out I actually download them from Amazon. Who pays for those books? What kind of deal do they have?
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Do you go to Amazon's website or is it the kindle format from your library?
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OverDrive and Amazon have a deal (in the US only) so that Kindle versions are often (not always) one of the checkout options (other options will be ePub and sometimes PDF). So your library buys a book and the Kindle version, if available, is fulfilled by Amazon so that the book works with things like whispersync. The price the library system pays for a book depends on the publisher.
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If we are asking about Overdrive, they always send me to amazon.com.
Then, on the same page where I say which family Kindle should be sent the book, I am asked to purchase a group of "Featured Recommendations." When going to return, Amazon suggests I buy the library book. The only way I'd ever do that is if was a paper one I'd lost ![]() Ideally, Amazon should be paying the library (or at least Overdrive) for the opportunity to pitch its products. Is there any definitive answer at to whether Amazon either gets paid, or pays out, when I borrow a Kindle-format eBook through a public library Overdrive collection? |
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I doubt any of the contract details are or ever will be public, but why would Amazon get paid anything? If anything they should be paying OverDrive (but I doubt they are) since it's a value added service for the Kindle product line. The way Amazon would get "paid" is by selling you a book they pitch or by selling you the whispersync for voice audio attached to that particular title and by the data collected on who borrows what (this was a bone of contention when Penguin made a stink about the OD/Amazon relationship since Amazon wouldn't share the data with them).
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I don't like to defend Amazon
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Thank you all for your responses. I got a better idea now.
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There was a good bit of controversy/outrage over the issue back when things were being negotiated in the 2011 timeframe, from both libraries and publishers...you can google 'Overdrive ALA Amazon servers' and find a bunch of articles.
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Kindle books that you borrow from a public library are available to you for a specific period of time, just like with physical library books. Public library books for Kindle are available at libraries throughout the United States. These books are offered through a digital service called OverDrive.
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