How can an online library, with digital copies of a book, only have so many books to “loan” out?

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How can an online library, with digital copies of a book, only have so many books to “loan” out?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Because of licensing. The digital copies are limited in number so that they can be checked out as if from a physical library, but not endlessly duplicated. Otherwise how would the author or publisher of the book ever make any money selling books?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Because those are the terms the publisher made them agree to when they bought their copies.

Just because something is physically possible doesn’t make it legal.