How do authors make money from library books?

But that staple of society is changing. The Los Angeles County Public Library has a lot of physical books, but it’s shifting a lot of its book budget to more of the hybrid model with ebooks and audio.”I know I sound like a cheerleader for libraries, and it’s not just because my wife is a librarian. But I really believe that that’s one of the staples of our society, is libraries.”

So, another question to consider is how authors get compensated for every time people click on a title to check it out from the library and read it on their tablet or phone.

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