> First, my local library lends eBooks. In the UK, authors get paid for each book that is borrowed. I'm in the US, and I wonder how it's done here. I also get

> First, my local library lends eBooks. In the UK, authors get paid for each book that is borrowed. I'm in the US, and I wonder how it's done here. I also get all of my eBooks and audiobooks from my local library. Just yesterday I was perusing titles at Barnes & Noble and putting stuff that looked interesting on my library queue. I ended up actually buying dead-tree manga books from there, since I really can't get into eBook-formatted manga for some reason. If it's illustration-heavy, I still want printed stuff. For the audiobooks I don't even have to strip DRM. The ODM files provide links where you can pull down unprotected MP3 files. For the eBooks I keep a Windows VM just for running an older version of Kindle for PC, Calibre with DeDRM, and Adobe Digital Editions. I know there are websites from where I can just directly download the DRM-stripped eBooks, but I figure that going through the library means that somehow some kind of revenue is making it to the authors. I'd be more than happy to tip the authors directly, but I'd imagine that publishers forbid that sort of thing contractually.