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Originally Posted by HarryT
Libraries are actually one of the major buyers of books. If 1000 libraries each have a copy of a book, that's 1000 sales for the author. Moreover, they often pay MORE for their books than the ordinary buyer.
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Oh, I don't dispute that. BUT- if each lending costs the publishers a sale, well, they are also one of the biggest causes of profit loss for publishers. If 1000 libraries each have a copy of the book, and each copy means 50 lost sales for the publisher, that means 1000 sales instead of the 50,000 possible sales. Doesn't look like great economics.....
Looks like, if each lending here means a lost sale, that those libraries are causing the publisher to LOSE 49,000 sales!!!!!