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Originally Posted by pwalker8
As far as I can tell, the issue between libraries and publishers with regards to eBooks is more limiting books during the initial selling period rather than concern of piracy.
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Limiting books might be directly correlated to increased piracy. Or the other way around. Once the publishers agreed to allow ebooks to libraries, maybe partially in the hope to decrease piracy, they set themselves up. They cannot just take ebook lending completely away, so they try to limit it. Well, they could take it away again, but it would not look good for their reputation. Amazon did not have to worry about that, because they never started allowing library ebook lending to begin with.