An app called Libby and the big business of library e-books
Libby and the bizarre false scarcity model of e-book sharing is the kind of weird crap you end up when you try taking existing laws and paradigms and applying them to the digital landscape.<p>There is absolutely no reason that a kid should have to wait in a queue to borrow an e-book because the 3 &quot;copies&quot; they have are already in use. If it&#x27;s about making sure authors are compensated appropriately, then we need to restructure licensing fees so that libraries are paying reasonable per-use licensing fees. But to pretend that there are only a few copies of this book we can borrow is asinine.