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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
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That link is nuanced:
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Admittedly, it also hurts a little when they tell me as much they took it out of a library. But because I too love libraries ( besides being a big user, I also support my library during their fundraising efforts, and by donating books I no longer use) I figure, "Okay, well then maybe they'll buy the next one...and the next one..."
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It sounds to me like mixed feelings. Or an admission that the feelings aren't justified.
If authors seriously resent public library borrowing, we should see them switching from Random House or HarperCollins, which sell or lease their eBooks to libraries via Overdrive, to refusniks like Macmillan and Simon & Schuster. If you can show me an author quoted as saying he or she switched for that reason, then, at least for that author, I would have to buy it.