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Originally Posted by HarryT
A library can lend any paper book, that's correct; they can only lend an e-book if the publisher has signed up to the lending programme.
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Only because that's the way it's worked so far. The fact that the library limits itself to that model is currently voluntary.
We won't know if that's the only way it can work until a library decides to do it without the publisher's permission and gets sued. As far as I know, that hasn't happened yet.