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Originally Posted by wgrimm
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!!!!!
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And do you believe this to be the case? I don't, any more than I believe that anyone who downloads an illegal eBook would have bought it. My objection to the latter is not primarily lost sales, but the principle of committing a crime.