> Gratz said that IA avoids the conflict by only lending out e-books to one user at a time, causing no harm because it honors traditional lending in brick-and-m

> Gratz said that IA avoids the conflict by only lending out e-books to one user at a time, causing no harm because it honors traditional lending in brick-and-mortar libraries that has been practiced for years without impacting publishers’ bottom lines. This is a bad argument. It's very likely that brick-and-mortar libaries do impact publishers' bottom lines, and they're allowed anyway. The concept of libraries fundamentally conflicts with publishers' concept of "reasonable" profit from their copyrighted material. Capitalism conflicts with socialism.