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Originally Posted by John F
That does seem like a stretch of the definition of a "lost sale". Googling a definition came up with:
Sounds like Jon is saying that he would never buy it, so there was no opportunity to sell it to Jon, so no lost sale.
Sounds to me like A lost sale would be if they didn't sell it to the library at all.
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Googling define lost sale
"Lost sales, also referred to as lost revenue, income or profit, is a term used in the context of Internet piracy to refer to sales that did not occur because potential customers have chosen not to buy a product but to obtain it from an illegal source for a lower cost or for no cost."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_sales
Which would certainly any library borrow, and it's not a far stretch from this to include not purchasing it period.