For this to be the case, they would have had to loan out more copies than are currently unusable in libraries AND the loan needs to be done in lieu of a purchase. There are 1 million books on there, the odds of that happening in substantial amounts is exceedingly low.
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You act like people wanting to read a writer's book for free are the equivalent of people dying of thirst begging for someone to remove the fence from the town's only well Like, jfc, there's a fuckton of public domain books on Project Gutenberg Read something else
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People are out of jobs, their lives are ruined and when they go to the one place in the world that won't charge them, the libraries have to say "nope. We paid for the book but you seem we didn't PAY for the book the way the author wants us to now"
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With this reasoning, I could get out of any complex contract just by mocking its complexity.
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