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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
And again it is not. We will have to agree to disagree on this one. And sure you can create sales. Make buying more enticing. One way is advertisement. You advertise a book, you create sales. Every sale that happens is new and existed as a non-sale previously. You can choose. Either let someone else pay for it for a crippled book (time limited borrow you might have to stand in line for to read) and get it from the library, or choose to pay yourself by getting your own license right now without time limits. If you can convince a future borrower waiting in line to drop out and buy outright, you created an additional sale. Not even publishers are as stubborn as you in declaring every borrow from the library as lost opportunity to create an extra sale.
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So you're either willfully misinterpreting what I'm saying, or there's a language barrier. I'm not sure which.
I did not say publishers can not create sales. That would indeed be ludicrous. What I said was publishers are going to count people who only borrow books as 'lost sales' because those people could have bought the book
REGARDLESS of the publisher selling to the library.
Publishers likely are as stubborn as I am on this, they just don't bother discussing it with random people on the internet.