IA is definitely on shaky legal ground here. But as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the right.

Should be allowed as many physical copies as the library has, as long as the amount lent out does not exceed the physical number of copies So, both physical and digital could be lent within that number of physical copies

Seems odd that I can share digital items in my Steam Library but Book Libraries can’t Publishers of every kind have never liked lending or the secondary market

Trying to kill the Internet Archive would set just the precedent publishers want to kill community libraries.

I’d be surprised if the big publishers didn’t try setting up their own pay-for-access libraries in a few years.