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Originally Posted by meeera
Huh? I'm talking about physical books, here. (I just checked - my state library system has no Deary ebooks, and my kid's school library doesn't do ebooks at all.)
He's been compensated for library books already, and I'm under absolutely no "obligation" to compensate him further just because we borrow his books. What on earth are you suggesting? Mandatory Paypal tipjarring every time someone takes a book out of the library? Every time we borrow a book from a friend? Every time we buy a book from a used book store? How about when I read the book out loud to my kid - do we have to pay double because we both enjoyed the story?
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What I'm suggesting is that libraries, as we have known them, are obsolete. To the extent they do survive, it will be through political & bureaucratic inertia, or because they repurpose themselves away from physical books. And if I'm right about that, this means that there will be different economic arrangements for authors and libraries in the future.