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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Amazon Prime books compete with Libraries?
Uh, how many libraries carry self-published books? That *is* the core of their catalog, remember.
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Do you have evidence for this?
I just checked on my daughter's prime student account. Even though she isn't eligible for the lending library, I could bring up the most popular lending library titles through the technique
explained in a post here. The top three titles were published by Scholastic. Going deeper into the list, there seem to be a mix of books that are and aren't from traditional publishers.
Amazon Lending Library directly competes with public libraries by lending bestsellers, with no waiting, that require a public library reserve. For example, I found 59 people waiting for one of 6 copies of
The Litigators, as an eBook, at my local public library, via overdrive, or you can get it immediately via the Amazon Lending Library. It this only results in the public library wait list being shorter, there will be no harm. But if it causes more affluent people, who now make financial contributions to public libraries, to instead pay for Prime, there will be harm. It's too soon to know.