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>If we had Spotify for eBooks, would that solve problem for everyone?

Something like Kindle Unlimited but not limited to just Amazon? Count me in!

Weeksie, did it?? What're musicians' problems now?

You mean a service that pays authors every time someone checks out their book? I'm sure there's a term for that. Begins with an L. Lib something?

> pays authors every time someone checks out their book?

That's not how libraries work. Libraries pay for a book once (assuming it wasn't donated to them.)

No, you're wrong. At least in the UK since 1979 [1] Other countries have similar schemes.

[1] https://www2.societyofauthors.org/where-we-stand/public-lend...

Turns out other countries still haven't gotten the point of public libraries. Once you own a book, it's your property. You don't have to pay a fee to lend out your own property. This is how it works in America, where free public libraries were invented.

Ok but hear me out, what if we embed citations in the text, so there's like a colossal graph of publications, with regional distribution centers.

Just like Spotify solved it good and hard for musicians?