@wizzwizz4 the standard copyrightist apologia goes like this. With print books, libraries have to buy a copy from the publisher approved by the author, and can only lend it out to one person at a time. So they ought to do the same with #eBooks, or negotiate a copyright licence that allows them to do the unrestricted lending the #InternetArchive is now doing (one that presumably costs much more per book).
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