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Originally Posted by Quoth
Both of those are the USA.
A small percentage of the world's population.
Not true in many countries.
Some countries they can only buy library licensed edition / price and must pay a per loan royalties, that ultimately goes to author or author's estate if in copyright. Also only central purchasing.
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I wonder what those "small" and "not many" compare to actual loans.
Looking at this:
https://wordsrated.com/global-book-sales-statistics/
U.S. and China have 45% of book sales distribution, and it looks like China is similar to the U.S. in how it acquires books?