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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Ebooks are a whole new area and can be sold or lent innumerable times. Are you saying this should happen? An author sells a dozen or so books for 9.99 and then it is free for everyone? Without restricting lending/copying of ebooks that is the way it would be.
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I haven't seen anybody suggest that libraries should be able to buy one copy of an eBook and then loan it out to an infinite number of simultaneous users. What libraries actually want to do is buy X copies of an eBook and then lend out "X" copies at the same time (via DRM).
Previously, they could do that with any pBook that they wanted due to the first sale doctrine. Why shouldn't they be allowed to do the same thing with eBooks?