Kyle Courtney writes: “If a pending lawsuit by major American book publishers challenging its legal limits succeeds, controlled digital lending’s absence might be a lot more noticeable to a lot more people. It will be harder to borrow digital books and other materials from the growing number of libraries that practice controlled digital lending or some form of it. Alleging ‘piracy’ and suppression of their book sales, America’s biggest book publishers have sued the Internet Archive for its use of controlled digital lending.”