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Originally Posted by DNSB
My definition of practicality as it relates to profits is based on the sad experience that the vast majority of entities that fail to produce profits fail to continue providing products. I want authors to make enough money writing so they will continue writing. See H. Beam Piper for a sad example of what can happen otherwise.
As one friend of mine said while folding his family business, "we didn't start out to be a non-profit, it just happened."
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OK, but you haven't demonstrated how a library "lending" digital files without restriction harms business.
Or for that matter, you may as well argue that libraries in general hurt the book sales industry because it gives people a reason not to buy books themselves.