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Originally Posted by John F
As far as your library comment and the author not getting paid, that doesn't sound right, at least in the U.S. and U.K.
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No, I meant only KU doesn't get paid. With the library books (from real libraries) the issue is you don't own it, so shouldn't remove DRM or format shift, which also might result in "forgetting" to delete it when borrow expires.
Unlike Amazon and Open Library, USA, UK and Ireland have to buy ebook licences for the number of simultaneous loans, then in UK and Ireland the actual "borrow" triggers and additional royalty of about 30 pence. Authors/publishers still get paid even if real library users do pirate/steal a copy. If you want to format shift or remove DRM, then buy your own copy.
The Open Library doesn't pay anything to copyright holders, or didn't last time I checked.
Scribd is a sort of library system I don't quite understand, but they actually buy ebooks, unlike Amazon who doesn't pay anything to make the ebooks available for loan, which is why they have their mad system of monitoring your app or Kindle.