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You can borrow books from the Internet Archive like an actual library?? Why did I never know about this before
They aren't actual books: they are unauthorized copies. Some are legal copies of books old enough to be out of copyright, but others are bootleg digital editons that compete with legitimate versions & deprive authors of their livelihoods: https://nwu.org/book-division/cdl/faq/ … @paythewriter
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Oh. Well that's less fun.
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So I guess I just realized that despite having worked in libraries and knowing lots of librarians, I don't really know how libraries work. Would an author get paid every time a book is checked out?
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In the US, no (although e-book licenses may allow only a finite number of loans, so in effect charge per lend). In Canada, UK, and many other countries, a Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme provides payments to authors for library lending of physical books: https://nwu.org/book-division/cdl/faq/#faq39 …
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Piracy doesn't result in lost sales though. People downloading books for free were unlikely to buy them in the first placehttps://www.engadget.com/2017/09/22/eu-suppressed-study-piracy-no-sales-impact/…
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The primary adverse effect on authors of distributing digital copies online is not on sales of physical books but, as should be obvious, on revenues from authorized digital versions: https://nwu.org/book-division/cdl/faq/#faq30 …
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Then make a DMCA claim..
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DMCA applies to third-party hosts of copies uploaded by others, not to digital copies made and uploaded by the Internet Archive itself: https://nwu.org/book-division/cdl/faq/#faq8 …
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