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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Ebooks bought from Amazon won't have the necessary licensing that a library book would need. The license they carry is for non-commercial use, for one thing. .
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Correct. You can't give away an ebook you bought for yourself. You don't own ebooks, you license a copy for personal use. That's not the same thing as saying you can't buy an ebook for the purpose of giving to the library.
This really isn't so hard to understand. An ebook is not a physical book. A physical book degrades with use. A physical book is only in one physical location, ever. That location may change, but it's always in one place no matter where that place is.
An ebook file is perfect and infinitely copy-able. If I bought a DRM free ebook from Amazon and donated it to my library....that one file could be used to give everyone the ability to read the book...at any time, from any place, forever. All the people, all the time, in all the places.
This is untenable. Ergo, license use and DRM to enforce the license. Even without DRM...libraries would still not be free to accept an ebook file and just let anybody "borrow it from the library".