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Originally Posted by LakeLoon
This is a fair point, but I think there is a difference. Cheap/free ebook deals are often either old works by established authors, or new ones by less established authors. They want to encourage you to spend the premium for new books when they are first released. Libraries, on the other hand, are often used by folks to read new/recent books by established authors without having to pay for them.
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Yes, but the library selections currently aren't anywhere near as extensive as what the bookstores offer. So if I borrow a book and discover I like the author, I'll head for a bookstore for his or her other books. If the first book wasn't available for me to sample, I might never discover the author at all and never spend any money at the bookstore.
And if I want to read a new/popular e-book from the library, the situation is the same as with a physical book--either I get on a long waiting list, or I buy it.
The question really is why Amazon--the biggest fish in the pond--apparently feels most threatened by the library system.