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Originally Posted by meeera
You seem to have a have a weird, passive, unrealistic idea of how libraries and library users work. Libraries aren't magically sent a pile of random free books every month that readers then passively browse and borrow. A reasonable percentage of the library books I borrow are books I requested the library purchase. This means (a) a sale, (b) other people being exposed to the author and their works, and (c) the library knowing that that author/subgenre/style is something that at least some of their patrons want, guiding further purchases.
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No, I have a fairly rational view of where the money comes to buy the books. A public library buys books based on the money they are give by the government. You may put in requests for your local library to buy a book, you don't allocate how much to spend on books or decide which books are purchased. Depending on how big the library system is, books might be purchased at a central location rather than by individual librarians and your requests are at best added to a list of requested books which might or might not get purchased. Perhaps if you are in some small town library you might have some pull with which books that get purchased, but in the large library system, any individual library patron has very little influence on what books get purchased.