Libraries pay higher rates for ebooks than the retail price. They have to renew the license. A publisher can choose not to license their ebooks to a library if they want. Each license can only be lent to one person at a time and there are usually time limits.
replyIn other words, it's completely different in every way.
I know publishers are working very hard to take back the first sale doctrine on eBooks. I’m talking about actual books in libraries not eBooks.
replyAnna’s archive deals in ebooks. They don’t have physical books.
replyTrying to force the comparison to be against physical books in libraries and ignoring their ebook situation is dishonest.
In the UK and many other countries, Public Lending Right pays authors for books in libraries (with varying details from country to country):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_lending_right
replyThanks, I didn’t know
replyNot taking any stances here, but the difference is a library book can only be used by one person at a time, and it eventually wears out and has to be replaced.
replyNeither of those are true for digital works.