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Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR
.. books are being read at the library for free ( I know the library pays to lease them) but they don't pay money per read.
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They do, actually, in quite a number of jurisdictions, perhaps most famously the British one. It's not much, just a few pennies, but there is compensation based on the number of times a book is lent.
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And what the heck is the difference of buying a used book and pirating an E-book?
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There is only one used copy, and while you can sell it multiple times it cannot be read by more than one person at a time. An ebook can be copied an infinite number of times with ease.