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Originally Posted by sebastien
Also, an author doesn't receive a cent from second hand books and libraries. Does that mean that they should be banned?
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Actually, libraries are major purchasers of books. Sometimes THE major purchaser for such things as reference books. Very often, too, publishers do a "library edition" of a book which is considerably more expensive than the standard retail version.
Additionally, in some countries, authors do get paid for library loans. In the UK there's a central "pot" of money which gets paid to authors each year on the basis of their total number of library loans over the previous year. It's not a fortune, but a popular author can get a couple of thousand £ from it.