Ian Rennie: They purchase a copy of every book they lend out.

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How about paying authors a fair price for the books you lend

They purchase a copy of every book they lend out.

Didn't they get sued precisely because they were lending out books that they didn't have copies of?

They do not purchase library copies, which they would then be allowed to lend. That is the issue here

Hi there, former public librarian and current healthcare librarian here. What are you imagining "library copies" to be?

In this case, ebooks purchased to be loaned

So your complaint is that they aren't purchasing ebooks, not that you think there are special "library copies" of print books. Okay. So in cases where an ebook isn't available, what are you proposing they do?

They make ebooks and pay authors?

Cool. How?

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