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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Authors who write superior quality stuff that people will be addicted to don't have to worry about the people who read it for free at the library. Write good stuff, and when people can afford it or get a birthday/christmas gift asking occasion, will eventually buy the book!
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And remember, as andym said, the authors do get paid for books borrowed from the library - at least, they do in the UK, via the Public Lending Right agency. They get 6.05p for every loan, and the more popular authors make quite a decent income from this. I assume they won't get this via Amazon.
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Originally Posted by andym
IBut there must be easier ways of preventing this - limiting the number of books you can borrow in a week (say) or using Social-DRM technology to imprint the borrower's name on every page. etc etc
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Should be easy enough to implement - my library restricts borrowing to 3 books at a time. I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult to restrict them to say 15/week.