The Expiry is stupid. You have the scenario of earlier books of a series being unavailable as ebooks in the library, but still there on paper.
Libraries should get ebooks free and pay a per loan royalty. Any number of loans in parallel and for ever.
As an aside copyright should be 40 years after Author's death, or maybe less. The repeated increasing is crazy. It's corporate greed & control, not about authors or their children.
Also no geographic limits and no out of print. The publishing industry is broken.
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