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Originally Posted by jackm8
Back in the days, you had authors complaining of libraries even existing. I warrant that some oppose the idea even today. Digital books throw another argument into the fray. You can lend, sell and borrow all bought paper books, but just lending a single digital book in a household poses many issues that are often only solved by removing drm.
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A surprising number of authors and publishers do still believe that libraries are bad or wrong in some way. It's astonishing.
The way current DRM schemes limit first sale rights and basic things people don't even think need to be legislated like lending a book to friends is one of the many problems publishers and book stores are totally uninterested in confronting, unless they can use it to harvest more sellable data. On the other hand, authors do want to get paid and it's perfectly fair for them to try and ensure they do.
I've ended up mostly not engaging with published books because it's all such a hassle, and if people don't want my money that's fine. There's a lot of excellent webcomics and online fiction available.