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Originally Posted by MGlitch
OK this is the last I'm going to talk about lost sales in this context, since it's marginally related to the topic and between you, tiger, and me we're derailing this topic such as it is.
A person who has no interest in an item at all is not a lost sale.
A person who has interest in an item, but does not buy it is a lost sale. The reason itself doesn't matter for the context of calling it a lost sale it only matters in the context of trying to recoup that lost sale.
Now since library borrowing exists it creates a group that can have no intention to purchase, but who still acquires the book. These are still lost sales, they are just accounted for as ones which there isn't anything that could be changed.
In the post that sparked this whole back and forth, Jon would fall into a person who has interest in the item group.
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One thing that has not been talked about yet. What about the person who reads a library book and likes the author so much they go and buy other books the author has written. Without the library book those sales would not have happened