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Old 12-14-2012, 12:30 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by jersysman View Post
I do not agree with the gist of he suggestion that says easily being able to borrow a book from a library would hurt the funding stream of authors, et. al. I mean it was what was being done before ebooks came along and authors seemed to be able to eat and keep a roof over their head. People bought books then and people will still buy books now. One thing a library has always done for me is to alert me and let me sample books from authors that I was not familiar with. That, I believe, is a good thing for authors. The more people that become aware of them, the better. Libraries and the ability to borrow from libraries is not the enemy here.
This makes sense to me.

I have bought books when I discovered series or authors I enjoyed via library books. Typically, the library will have only part of a series, or only a few books by an author, and I have gone looking for the others via paid sources.
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