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Originally Posted by Fourl29
With all due respect Harry, if libraries are going to lending the one "copy" of the ebook they bought to many customers the publishers may reasonably demand that they pay for more than one "copy". But if said "copy" is only lend to one person at a time, then they can't be demanding multi user license fees, because at any one point, one person is using/reading the book.
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But different people. If you read the licence agreement at any ebook store you'll see that the book is licensed to you personally, not to anyone else. You can't (under the terms of the licence) buy an ebook and let your friend read it. A library is purchasing the right to let multiple people read the book.