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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's really not complex. You can't grant someone else rights that you don't have, without the permission of the copyright holder. You have a licence for your personal use of the book: that's very different to the licence a library needs, which is to allow multiple people to copy the book. Libraries pay a lot more for ebooks than you or I do, for that very reason.
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Probably I was unclear.
My point was that libraries are not free to do as they want with donated eBooks and possibly wouldn't utilize them in general collections if they could as they don't often do that with paper books in my part of the world.
If they could, and they did utilize donated eBooks freely, I think it would be quite a blow over time to both authors and publishers, especially if donations could be written off for tax purposes.
Helen