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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon
Let’s assume an author were to come forward and demand that their copyrighted book be removed from any and all libraries, my guess, is that the case would go to court, and there is a good possibility that the book would be removed from shelves.
But as far as I am able to tell, this has never happened. And as a result, at this time in history, it's irrelevant.
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You guys may be off on a side-issue. There's a critical difference when a physical book, bought once, can only be loaned to one person at a time, and an ebook, bought once, which can be "loaned" to an infinite number of people at a time, who never have to return it, without the purchaser losing anything. Again, this is akin to libraries printing up new copies of the physical book for free and letting people walk away with them.
It may be true that currently DRM schemes currently prevent one-time lending as well, but that's a software issue; it doesn't address the underlying morality of ebook copying.