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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Reasons like this?
How about money? The library actually pays money, even when the book is underutilized. Up front. It is not necessary to pay even more money each time the library loans it out. The library already owns the license until it expires, if it expires. Again it is not lost sales. Would the publisher like to sell more direct licenses instead of selling the license to borrow? Absolutely. They are fighting for market share. They don't want to compete on price, so the only thing they have left is converting borrows into sales. Not lost sales, they are trying to create more sales. They could also try to sell more expensive licenses to libraries during the new release window.
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How about you quote the full sentence rather than quoting part of it without full context.
And again, it is lost sales. You literally can not create a sale from a previous non-sale (the person who borrowed instead of bought) without that sale having been lost in the first place.