You can rent them by the yard

[andrewducker]

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

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[cyprinella]

Publishers want to set library ebooks to expire after being lent something like 26 times, forcing another purchase of the book. Harper Collins started it: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/03/harpercollins-library-ebook-checkout-limit.html