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Originally Posted by CyGuy
I certainly like the idea of leaving out the publisher but I still think this is fundamentally wrong overall. Why not just purchase the book outright and loan it to whoever wants to read it until it wears out and has to be repurchased? I just don't see any reason to pay a "fee" if the book is purchased outright, you should be free to do anything you want with it other than make copies. If people like the book they can purchase their own copy.
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The reason for it is that the library copy will probably be read by people who would otherwise have bought their own copy; the PLR payment is compensation for those lost sales.
It used to be the case the an author could refuse to allow their books to be in a library because of this, but the law changed, and authors could no longer "opt-out" of the the library system. PLR was introduced as compensation for this loss of choice.