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Originally Posted by K. Molen
Does anyone have any insight into whether a library can continue to offer an ebook if a publisher decides to no longer keep it available for purchase?
Common sense seems to dictate that yes, indeed they can still lend "out-of-print" ebooks if they acquired them prior to them going "out-of-print," but common sense and publishers are sometimes at odds with each other.
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In the Netherlands, it was possible; at least, the last time I was in a library. I've seen many books there that I *knew* to be out of print because I had tried to purchase them myself.
15 years ago, when I started to read Fantasy, I hit a snag in one of the series published by Spectrum. I couldn't buy the latest books, as they decided not to translate and publish them, and they took the older books out of print even before I could acquire them. The library still had those books, however.
It was the point at which I sold / gave away all of my translated works and started to read English exclusively, except if the original work was in Dutch or German.