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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
Actually, libraries pay more for books than you and I do, specifically to cover the potential revenue loss. That example doesn't really fly.
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Also in some countries such as the UK (but not, I believe, the US) there's a central "pot" of money that the library system shares out to authors each year on the basis of the number of loans of that author's books in that year. It's not a fortune, but popular authors make a few thousand $ a year from it.