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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
In democracies, you can’t stop a library, or an individual you don’t like, from buying a paper copy.
So if an organization you’d rather not have your book — say, a library, or a harsh critic, or an organization that wants to create a braille version for free distribution to the visually impaired, wants your book, I think you should be required to sell it to them.
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Why should anyone be required to sell anything to anyone? Morally sure, legally no. Especially when that someone is going to turn around and redistribute copies for free, albeit in an altered medium.
Also, libraries buy from publishers, it's not terribly difficult for publishers to seriously diminish or eliminate a libraries ability to buy their books.