I've skimmed over most of this thread but one point jumped out that I wanted to respond to.
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Originally Posted by emellaich
...Making it easier to loan/check out library books will have the consequence of damaging the commercial (Amazon, BNB, ...) marketplace...
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I am about "56 of 75" patrons waiting for the .epub version of "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest" at my public library.
When I log in to Amazon.com, I see that book at $9.99.
I have enough reading to do that I'll wait a month or three for my number to come up at the library.
If I saw Amazon selling it for, say, $1.99, I'd buy it, no hesitation.
Publishers are likely causing the relatively high prices on ebooks and if they don't don't take a lesson from the music industry, they will become irrelevant. They can either have a little bit of something or a whole lot of nothing for all of me.