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Originally Posted by applewine
I had no idea. So what happens when you donate a personal book to a library? Do they contact the publisher and pay some kind of extra fee and ask for a copy of the terms and conditions and sign that?
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At my library we do add donated books to our collection, and we don't pay an extra fee to the publisher for the print book. That is because in the U.S. there have already been court cases that have decided that the original purchaser of the book has the right to do with it whatever they want: keep, sell, donate, or destroy.
It is not the same with ebooks. They are digital and can only be used as the licensing agreement permits. I suspect that may change in the future, but for now, this is the way it is.