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"If it's a popular book, maybe it gets lent ten times, there's a lot of wear and tear, and the library will then put in a reorder."
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Dude apparently doesn't actually read many books, if he thinks 10 readings is enough wear and tear to re-order. (And he doesn't know how libraries work, if he thinks most books get replaced when they get worn out, instead of bumped to make room for new ones.)
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"With ebooks, you sit on your couch in your living room and go to the library website, see if the library has it, maybe you check libraries in three other states. You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without paying a thing. "It's like Netflix, but you don't pay for it. How is that a good model for us?"
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Sometimes, after people read a book from the library, they want to buy their own copy. Macmillan apparently isn't interested in selling books to people who read in libraries. And sometimes, after people read a book for free, they buy the next one by that author or in that genre from the same publisher.
While I get really tired of the "one purchase should mean one reader, or maybe two if that reader is married" approach to ebooks, I am always amused by the arrogance of publishers or authors who think their books will be read
hundreds of times if they're allowed to be included in e-libraries.
Because apparently, he thinks that he'd be losing hundreds of sales per book (or maybe just dozens of sales per book) by allowing libraries to carry them. I wonder if he'd remove his company's physical books from libraries if he had the option of doing so.
And he'll have to watch out; soon, libraries are going to start carrying ebook *readers* and loaning those out, with books loaded on them.