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Originally Posted by crich70
Neat. So someone will presumably be able to borrow a book through the library and see if they want to buy a copy from Smashwords for themselves.  |
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I never buy books I've read from the library. Once read, there's no point in reading it again.
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Originally Posted by Fbone
And if someone wants to re-read, they can borrow it again from the library.
My libraries don't have the buy-it-now option anyway.
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I think that most people are predominantly either library borrowers or purchasers.
These days I almost always borrow, although I have bought thousands of paper books. At one time I had about 600 shelved an 15 boxes.
I am less inclined to renew/reborrow ebooks as it is so easy to borrow them I don't overstock. I borrow 2 or 3 max and read and return. Used to be I would go to the library and get 20+ books at a time, so I sometimes did not finish them all.
In Canada AFAIK both publisher and author get a certain amount when an ebook is borrowed. That will be the big benefit to SmashWords and their authors perhaps.
Helen