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Do they pay every time someone checks out a book?
I recently listened to a decent podcast related to this very question (link)
Probably the wrong forum but I will say it’s… complicated. Physical books wear surprisingly fast, so popular books actually make money for publishers and authors, even by being in libraries.
I’m not of the opinion that DRM is good, but I do understand that writers have to make a living. But it’s the markets fault for not providing unobtrusive DRM or solving this economic problem in a way that doesn’t suck for end users.
I don't know, that's between them and the publisher.
E: weirdly enough, I happen to have just got a library card a couple days ago so I hopped on Libby and, sure enough, they have a finite number of copies of each book that you can "borrow". So pretty much the same as renting them from the library without the pfaff.