I’m just a bit confused where you thought I was talking about the resale market at all.

Username checks out.

That’s definitely not what I was saying, nor is that what IA is doing.

Just a reminder that your average author is not wealthy, and if you enjoy a book series, pirating it can actually hurt an author’s chance at getting more work published if sales aren’t high enough.

Further if you take a book out from a library, the author still gets paid, and while ebook licenses obviously need to be thrown out the window like the garbage they are, IA’s model isn’t the answer either.