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Originally Posted by leebase
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At the end (or maybe it was somewhere else I read it) - there was talk of how libraries increase sales of books. That should be the lede, the middle and the conclusion. Rather than trying to persuade McMillan of the positives that should be coming from their partnership....Overdrive is putting out a public attack aimed at turning public opinion against McMillan.
They should both be looking to find the sweet spot, the optimum position where selling to libraries brings the MOST advantage to the publisher. It's somewhere between not selling to the libraries at all, and allowing endless reads of a single ebook to any number of people simultaneously.
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I question if library eBooks really does increase sales of books. My understanding of the argument is that people find authors in libraries and then later buy them. I suspect that this is most true for kids, who use libraries when they are young and then turn into book buyers when they have money (or people with money gift them with books). According to what I read, kids don't really seem to go big time into eBooks, they prefer physical books. If that is true, then eBooks at libraries is more for adults who are unlikely to start buying a lot of books when they have free books available.
It might be interesting to see what the demographics of library eBook borrowers really is.