I'm in full support of the internet archive; however, they made a very foolish decision to arbitrarily lend out books without limit during covid. If you wanted to 'borrow a book' they lent it to you by ignoring existing law.
I think it's publisher greed. There's already been one boycott of publishers recently over pay. There needs to be another over this. Libraries pay more for books because they intend to share them. If publishers want to play these games, they can deal with bad sale due to piracy.
I'm in full support of the internet archive; however, they made a very foolish decision to arbitrarily lend out books without limit during covid. If you wanted to 'borrow a book' they lent it to you by ignoring existing law.
I think it's publisher greed. There's already been one boycott of publishers recently over pay. There needs to be another over this. Libraries pay more for books because they intend to share them. If publishers want to play these games, they can deal with bad sale due to piracy.