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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
No I am not. I am looking at it from the publishers point of view. Every time they sell, they make money. Every single time. Whether they sell it to the library or through an ebook retailer. Obviously the profit margin in the new release window is too low on the sales to the library in the publishers eye. They are not losing money by giving the ebook away for free to the library. They are certainly not paying the library to take the ebook. They are losing potential profit on higher profit margin to sales to individual readers. Very big distinction.
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And you’re still wrong.
So publishers sell to the library. Library lends out book. The people borrow said book. Those people do not buy the book. The library doesn’t give the publishers anything regardless of how much the book is borrowed for a single license they may or may not purchase additional licenses that’s not actually material to the topic as it just exponentiates the issue.
The publisher still views the people who borrowed the book as lost sales since they could have sold to them as well as the library. And again it doesn’t matter if the person was never going to buy the book only borrow it from the library it’s still something that the publishers view as a lost sale.
And again the lost sales from selling to the library are factored in. But they exist.
You’re right that they’re losing out on higher profits but you’re ignoring the reason why.