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Originally Posted by HarryT
The answer is self-evident. The library is paying more because they are buying more rights. When you buy an ebook, you are buying it for personal use only; the library is buying a multi-user licence.
It's no different to buying a single-user licence or a multi-user licence for a piece of software. Do you think that that's wrong, too?
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You love licenses, don't you? Because it's that technicality that keeps reappearing when people are devoid of practical arguement. Who introduced the whole concept of eBooks being licenses? The user? The librarian? Or, perhaps... the publisher?
Why do car rentals not have to pay that multiple? By your line of reasoning, they are not buying a car for their personal use only, but to give it out to multiple users. How is that any different? Oh yes, I forgot. eBooks are merely licenses. How convenient.
