You can rent them by the yard

[andrewducker]

Just to be entirely clear, we're talking about _ebooks_ here.

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[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I imagine it is imposed on them. With physical books, there is a monetary outlay that places a limit on how many copies they can issue. This would have to be artificially imposed for e-books and the reason someone (the PLR?) would want to impose this is to protect income for authors.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I can confirm that this is the case.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Yes... it is a licencing issue. We have similar things with some bits of software -- the licence allows only (say) 25 simultaneous copies running on the central system. If you pay more you can have more simultaneous copies.