>Made them available as a substitute for publisher-provided ebooks. Is this true? A substitute is like for like. The IA lending provided them as a lend on the

>Made them available as a substitute for publisher-provided ebooks. Is this true? A substitute is like for like. The IA lending provided them as a lend on the proviso that a physically purchased book is available and unused. Its like saying that a Bookstore is competing with a Library. However the Library can only satisfy a small amount of Bookstore demand, and does so as a public good. They arent the same and the lending is downstream of a sale. I guess you could make the argument that ebooks also have crippling anti consumer licenses so both are similar. But that just leads back to "The law should be different"