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Originally Posted by MGlitch
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.
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And are we also counting people who did not check out the book from the library? After all, they also could have bought the book and very likely most of the purchases are made from that group.
As for lost sales, again the definition I have always seen and used was a lost sale is when the customer wants to make a purchase and you are not able to supply what they wanted to purchase.