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500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive’s Lending Library from the a-modern-book-burning,-courtesy-of-the-publishers dept.
Big publishers have sued the Archive for refusing to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the library.
A book that might cost $ 29.99 retail can cost $ 1,300 for an eBook license.
That license may include restrictions, such as having to relicense after a certain number of lends.
Publishers are able to charge exorbitant monopoly rents, while artificially limiting how many books libraries can even buy.
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