Slow to gain ground in the US due to ongoing conflict between the libraries and
the publishers over compensation, ebook lending in Europe would be one way for readers to continue consuming high volumes of digital material — academic texts or popular — as a way to avoid the VAT issue.
Not exact matches
New concerns are growing among UK
publishers over the fair
compensation for their authors when it comes to library lending, specifically of ebooks.
This lawsuit comes as a response to the $ 43 million settlement with songwriters and
publishers that Spotify proposed back in May, and is the latest development in a long - standing dispute
over the streaming rights
compensation split between labels and publishing companies.