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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That's a lie unless it's a georestriction issue.
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Libraries don't get retail ebooks or pricing. Publishers do special deals, often separately with each library system/organisation. It's a licence also for a specific number of simultaneous loans.
It's impossible to know if the County Librarian lied or not. Also it may have been what the librarian has been told. Also UK & Ireland paper book libraries don't work the same as USA either. In addition to buying physical copies at a library price a small per loan royalty is paid to registered authors.
Archive org's Open Library is different again, they make up their own rules.
Also Publishers HAVE carved up the English speaking markets in a manner that is nasty. This is partly due to the USA ignoring British copyrights in the 19C and even up to 1960s. So all major publishers English editions ARE geo-limited. Often in Ireland people have privately imported US published books and magazines that the UK dominated distribution wouldn't import due to agreement with UK publishers.