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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
That is a lot of work and is it worthwhile for an e-book from a lending library?
You can also do that with a paper book.
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One can get an ebook by scanning any paper book. There are services where you send them the paper book and they scan it for you. Back in the old days, before Kindle, people would scan books and put them on various newsgroups on usenet. It wasn't uncommon for groups of people to split up chapters of a book so it could be scanned quicker. Pretty much any book of any popularity at all was scanned and available. No one made money, it was just a bunch of people who were into art of scanning and editing books, much like the free library here. The difference is they ignored copyright laws.
Anytime you have a dead tree copy of a book, then DRM for the ebook doesn't prevent piracy. It makes the copyright holder and publisher feel better perhaps and it discourages Aunt Martha from loaning her ebook to her friends, but that's pretty much it. Before J.K. Rowling decided to release the Harry Potter books as ebooks, they were widely available for free on the darknet. Heck, the last Harry Potter book was available on usenet before the book was actually released. As far as I know, it didn't hurt sales in the slightest.