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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by suriyaG on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:51PM (#32973943)
It is not possible for a single physical book to be read by hundreds of thousands of people, concurrently. an ebook enables this.

I think a more apt example is, if the library started printing the books and giving it out themselves.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by ryoshu on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:10PM (#32974169)
Most libraries have ebooks these days.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by ok_dad on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:23PM (#32974324)
They’re limited to a certain number of loans before the library has to buy another license, or a per-checkout fee. Physical books have about a 50 to 100 checkout lifetime and ebook licensing is similar.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by matwood on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:28PM (#32975785)
There are quite a few different purchasing and lending models libraries use today. Outside of the big 4/5 publishers, many publishers will sell ebooks to libraries using a sim use model (pay 1 subscription fee and checkout as many times as possible over the period), and some will even let the library buy in that model perpetually.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by MichaelCollins on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:55PM (#32974705)
Not the library I go to for ebooks.
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