That site scans books without the copyright holder's permission, it is up to the copyright holder to send a takedown notice.
The authors are not being paid for any borrows. It is really just a pirate site dressed up as a library I think.
From the Authors Guild:
An Update on Open Library
Quote:
The Internet Archive describes Open Library as follows:
“The Internet Archive’s Open Library project will bring four million books online, through purchase or digitization, while honoring the rights of creators and expanding their online reach. Working with U.S. libraries and organizations serving people with print disabilities, Open Libraries can build the online equivalent of a great, modern public library, providing millions of free digital books to billions of people.”
But, contrary to their statement that they are “honoring the rights of creators,” they are not respecting creators’ copyrights. They do not limit Open Library to people with print disabilities. Rather, they are displaying and distributing full-text copies of copyrighted books to the entire world without authorization, in flagrant violation of copyright law.
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