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Originally Posted by LovesMacs
If he is serious about the survival and growth of literary culture, perhaps he should seek ways to promote reading (that is, the demand side) rather than just publishing (the supply side).
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In this article, he's promoting libraries. That sounds like reading promotion to me.
He is also promoting reading in his day job as an author of highly readable* fiction, widely available from public libraries (including, via Overdrive, as eBooks).
Nonfiction authors often get a large portion of their sales from libraries. Fiction writers -- especially, genre fiction writers like Patterson -- not much. Libraries may even harm Patterson's income by canibalizing sales to individual readers. This is possible with more difficult books, but less likely because of lack of a fan base which will read Patterson's next book even if not free. So Patterson is
not acting in self-interest.
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* I've never read any of them, but figure they must be highly readable for him to sell so many.