Thread: Should Libraries Charge for eBooks?
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Old 07-02-2011, 12:24 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by old goat View Post
Libraries pay for books and magazines and games and movies and all the other items available for library members, but you want YOUR ebooks to be provided for free? Now that is interesting.

If a library has my ebook, pays me $0.30 - $0.50 royalty for it, and loans it out 100,000 times, how am I making a pretty profit?
Your social contract with civilization allows you to profit from your book - period.

Making writings available - including to libraries - for the benefit of society is part of a mutual agreement from which authors recieve the benefit of copywrite protection in a reciprocal relationship.

Its a two way contract, you break your part and society owes you zero access to the legal system to enforce exclusivity for your work.

Under what basis did you think copywrite operated?
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