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Originally Posted by tompe
But concerning library people seem to think they have the right to register at remote libraries and lend books an infinite amount of times and the author will not get any money for that and that is OK.
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The thing is, with libraries loans, each individual copy that is lent out is duly paid for (at higher prices than normal retail), and each copy can only be read by one person at a time, so anyone else who wants to read it will have to wait until the e-book is "returned" to the library for re-loan.
So the authors are paid. Maybe not as much as they'd like to be, but they're paid.
The major objection people seem to raise to pirated books (beyond the obvious) is that umpty zillion people can hypothetically be reading that single copy of a book that's been shared online, for which original copy the author may or may not have been paid for in the first place (homebrew scans and all).
Incidentally, I'm going to be cynical and say that I deeply doubt that if HC gets their extra money for the 26 loan expiry fees, they're going to be sharing the largesse with their authors.