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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
When this has been brought up at various times most libraries I've read about have not been in favor of the idea as it doesn't fit in with yearly budget planning. They'd rather have a set number of copies available for checkout than potentially have their entire years budget blown on one or two best sellers with no checkout limits. Also what publishers think is reasonable and the rest of the world does might differ greatly. For a service like Scribd for instance publishers get the approx wholesale price of book for each read (about 60% of cover price).
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Sounds like some people want the publishers to go the route of ASCP. Payment for ebooks like payments for songs. I must pay again to reread MY book? The copyright laws need to be changed but probably won't to "protect" originality where it also include the copying of book titles to scam the public; this also need labeling both in the preface & advertising of the title copying book to indicate that it is not the same stuff as the REAL original. Yes, I was suckered once or twice when I didn't check.
I'm OK to reread books I bought & enjoy; reason I do buy & keep junk (for me) out of my bookshelves.