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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
That's a pretty big if.
In a US scenario, I'm thinking it's more likely that the starving student usually borrowed the books from a public or private (any starving Ivy League students out there?) library, and that library purchased more books as a result.
Much more likely: The student isn't starving, comes from a household where annual income is $50,000+, and is downloading books of living authors who, with only a tiny handful of exception, make less money than his or her parents.
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Nice strawman.
Feel free to provide statistics that indicate that most of the people who download are supported by families making more than $50k/year. And that poorer students usually get books from libraries, which do feed into author revenue streams, as opposed to borrowing from friends or buying cheap used books, which don't.
When I was poor and a voracious reader, I barely touched libraries ... they weren't as convenient (they're not open when I run out of books to read, unlike my friends, whom I can call at 8pm and say "I've finished book 2; do you have book 3?"), and their selection didn't often fit my tastes, and they don't allow enough books checked out at a time to cover for the hassle of getting to a library.