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Originally Posted by treadlightly
I think the statement made by Mr. president of sales for HarperCollins is wrong on (at least) two counts.
How does limiting the number of times an ebook is borrowed do this? All it does is undermine the library's resources because they have to pay more fees. I have bought more ebooks because I have borrowed from the library. Often only a few books in a series were available, I liked them and I bought the rest of the series. I may not have even looked at the series otherwise. Or I discovered an author from borrowing one book and bought many more.
One might argue that ebooks place pressure on physical bookstores, or libraries place pressure on physical bookstores, but I don't see how their lending policy is related to physical bookstores at all.
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The quote should be read as ""The previous ebook policy would undermine
our ability to squeeze as much money as humanly possibly out of our existing customer base since we do not and will not innovate (unless forced), hurt the growing ebook channel
that we hope will make up for the fact that we are very bad at business..."