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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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. |
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By definition, this doesn't apply; library borrows are not Internet piracy. And if you're implying that Jon is an Internet pirate, he's not.
Time to drop this. A book which a customer would never buy, whether or not he could borrow it from the library, is not a lost sale. The only lost sales in this context are from those who'd buy the book if they couldn't borrow it in a timely manner.