The challenge with digital goods is having a system where multiple people can have property rights. Digitising your library example, would likely result in a p

The challenge with digital goods is having a system where multiple people can have property rights. Digitising your library example, would likely result in a price of zero. Someone like Apple would be well placed to turn its books app into a library of books it purchased once. And use this to get more hardware sales. The current system of only one entity having rights isn’t desirable. But alternatives aren’t easy. Even if you tried to rule out sales for profit then marketplaces and bulletin boards would make things complicated.