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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Or, it could be that since they actually have the real sales figures and not some consultant generated estimate, they are experimenting to see if there actually _is_ some sort of effect on the sales numbers. Well, gosh, that's what the article says they are doing.
Yea, I get the any stick to beat the publishers with mindset, but this seems to be a reasonable experiment. Given that publishers are in the business to sell books, I would suspect if the _real_ numbers show that if windowing ebooks to the library hurts their sales as you assert, they will stop doing it.
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I agree with you. I know a lot of people are upset about this but without money, the publishers won't be able to stick around, so they do have to think about the bottom dollar. Of course banning libraries completely would be one disastrous no-no, but I can get some fluctuations with policies.