brainwane,
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@unpretty I just read https://unpretty.space/post/749936623491416064/is-there-anything-stopping-a-very-rich-person-from and I am going to ask my spouse, who used to be head of digital lending at the New York Public Library, to opine

brainwane,
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@unpretty Wayne could create an Overdrive account for his privately owned library

but publishers might not want to sell ebook licenses to his library (depending on whether it is geographically exclusive), depending on how many books we are talking about

He might want to negotiate directly with the publishers for the rights to a specific enumerated list of titles

@leonardr also briefly started considering Wayne's plans for offering app and/or web reader access to said books

brainwane,
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@unpretty

The closest model to what Wayne would be doing is Open eBooks

https://www.openebooks.org/about

given that Wayne is doing this toward a public policy goal

Some more on digital lending at libraries: https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/

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