when will you shitheads unionize and demand your wealthy companies, who have driven your wages down to nothing, instead of being furious that someone out there might have not paid for a copy of your book
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You understand that all of the major labor unions for authors are against this, right, and have strongly taken this position for years before Chuck Wendig ever said anything about it
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have you seen how publishers treat ebook rights to 'proper' libraries you fucking idiot. they are ASTONISHINGLY expensive, and the publishers reap the vast majority of the profits and give almost jack to the writers.
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libraries are far less likely to buy ebook copies than physical copies - which they can also acquire second hand thanks to donations, l m a o, and the author gets paid nothing that way - because the entire system for it is fucked thanks to greedy publishers.
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That's because there shouldn't be. Libraries have never needed them, the publishers force punitive licenses onto them.https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200519/13244644530/libraries-have-never-needed-permission-to-lend-books-move-to-change-that-is-big-problem.shtml …
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