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It's the licensing model the publishers choose—traditional publishing houses have very different contracts (that authors have no control over) & publishers set prices *really* high with the mistaken assumption that library sales hurt bookstore sales.
Self-published authors (like me) know better--we price reasonably plus we only have (generally) one way to access libraries (overdrive). But we do get paid per copy not per borrow.