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Libranda is at best a failing idea with a good purpose and at worst an outright assault at consumers.
Libranda means a de-facto collusion which implies that publishers won't sell their books directly, but through the platform. That way of distribution is meant to keep the old chain of publisher-wholesale-retail-consumer, and in fact it just favors mass retailers, who are the ones who can give the greater discounts as their overhead costs are relatively smaller.
The back-catalogues won't be available. The book business was failing and mainly blockbuster-driven even before the emergence of the ebooks. And of course, the digitising cost of old books is a big, fat lie, as Mobileread book uploaders can give testimony about.
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