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Originally Posted by anamardoll
So your worried about library financing and you think the government funding can't keep it afloat and it's all up to us to pitch in for the greater good...
...but until you've made a pretty profit on YOUR books, those libraries are gonna have to pay for the privilege to carry you in their catalog? 
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Why not? Do you expect authors to write for free, just to make sure that libraries have something to lend?
The question is NOT will libraries pay for books, or will patrons pay for libraries. They already do. The question is just HOW these things will be done in the digital world.
It seems rather clear that the analog funding system does not work in the digital world, whether for music or books. I can imagine that one solution might include that ebooks will not go into libraries for the first year of their existence.