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Originally Posted by Quoth
That's misleading.
Here Libraries do not just buy a physical book. They pay royalties based on number of loads.
Also for ebooks they negotiate and get a library licence (which can be more or less than retail) and also pay a per loan royalty.
IA isn't just buying a copy of a book and scanning it. They are making up their own rules. They also are poor at takedowns of copyright material that people upload to them. They are cheating authors.
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In North America they do just buy a physical book and loan it out. IA is US based. Not EU or Ireland based.
If copyright holders want stuff taken off IA they can submit DCMA claims and they take it down.
Is ANY eBook library license cheaper than retail? From what I've heard it's generally significantly more with very gross expiry terms that aren't even close to how physical books behave (25-50 loans or two years). I don't really care if publishers are
technically right. They have far too much incentive for libraries to not be a thing. There shouldn't be an erosion of rights just because the format has switched from physical to digital.