How do online libraries “run out” of copies of e-books?

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I’m kinda stupid, but aren’t they just sharing a downloaded document?

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They buy licenses for a certain number of copies. They can only loan out that number of copies at a time, or will be in violation of the license they are using. There is likely an electronic way to track this rather than just an honor system. So it may actually be a real limit.

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