I found their library to be very handy when my step-son forgot a book he needed for a high-school English class at his Dads. We tried to navigate Amazon to buy

I found their library to be very handy when my step-son forgot a book he needed for a high-school English class at his Dads. We tried to navigate Amazon to buy it but his account wasn't able to make purchase and then I found it available on here and we could check out a copy of it and he got his school work done. This was before they removed check out restrictions for the pandemic. There are lots of students who don't have credit cards or whose parents can't afford to buy ebooks or risk connecting their cards to their kids accounts where it could result in unplanned purchases. I honestly don't think authors will lose much money from people checking out books. Those who can and do pay for ebooks are unlikely to quit purchasing them but there are a lot of people without kindles & credit cards where something like this might be their only way to access the book.