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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
There's no real reason why writers or publishers couldn't get some money from the library every time one of their ebooks is "borrowed", assuming they don't already. That should keep them happy enough, and it would do away with the need to wait for someone else to "return" the ebook before you could have it. There's also no real reason why we couldn't have national or even international libraries rather than lots of tiny ones.
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While that could never work and has been pointed out in previous posts. Something that could be done is on library editions of ebooks, there be links to places the reader can buy a copy as well as links to other titles by that author. Then the library could get at least a few bucks a year from referral/affiliate credits. Those funds could perhaps help re-invent what a modern library should be today. I know in our mud-hole town the library is a shadow of what it was when i was a kid and back then it was awful...just no money in small towns. However if there could be a way to use their ebook catalog as a potential fundraising center it sure could not hurt and it could give publishers some of the money their avarice demands.
Of course the Kindle users are still out in the cold sans using external options to read the borrowed book.