[Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0]

From TFA:

> However, the Internet Archive expanded its library project during the covid-19 pandemic. It launched the National Emergency Library, allowing an unlimited number of people to access the same copies of ebooks. That’s when the publishers banded together to file the lawsuit, targeting both online libraries.

The digital copy could be checked out by many people at the same time.

[s-video]

NEL was a brief deviation from the usual CDL one-borrower-at-a-time system. Parent asked how CDL, not NEL, hurt authors.

[cmiles74]

The pandemic lending is a different thing, it's not "CDL".