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On the matter of free books being a preferred choice, it's not necessarily that people are just being mean.
I'm retired and so am on a restricted budget for buying books, which in Australia are a lot more expensive than in at least some other countries - including ebooks. If a book is selected by the book club that I don't already own or can't get from my library, and it's not by a favourite author, then I'm not able to justify spending money on getting a copy unless I am convinced that the particular book is something really out of the box.
The Literary Book Club selection for March is an example of that, and I am waiting on a paper copy of it to arrive from the UK, because it isn't available as an epub and Kindle was only prepared to let me have it on their "cloud", so I couldn't have turned it into an epub.
By all means have a category that requires people to buy the book in question unless they can borrow it, but understand that a number of people may not be able to participate.
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