Imagine if they were fighting for the kind of Public Lending Right setup that's common in other countries, which allows authors to be paid for being in libraries, rather than setting up libraries as the enemy.
This is WILD.
publiclendingright.ca/about/overview
Also, authors (of which I am one), the Author's Guild does a lot of good generally, but they are WRONG here. They are trying to turn against us.
There are over 12,000 public libraries in America and they are one of the only places reliably spending money on books every single day of the year.