I'll give my answer your other questions here
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Suppose I buy only five books and share all of them? Suppose I buy fifty books and share forty-nine?
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I believe that was
my point. Although there is not sharp cut-off line, you can still classify extremes. One grain of sand is a grain of sand. 10,000 grains of sand is a heap. 42 grains of sand? Grey area.
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And who is the "bad" person? The one who's sharing the books, or the one who's getting them for free?
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Both.
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Suppose it's a public library that's sharing one ebook with thousands of people? I suspect that might adversely affect sales too.
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As the library is sharing sequentially it won't make a lot of difference, and is in any case is explicitly permitted by the copyright holder making them available to the library system.