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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
For example, Libraries buy books for use by people who can't or won't purchase them, but they need some kind of criteria to choose which books to buy--and "bestseller" is easy to identify; "most popular torrent download" is not. A very popular author whose works are more downloaded than purchased might lose the chance to get the little big of money that comes from library purchases.
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I thought libraries bought books that got good reviews. And this selection criteria do not depend on popularity. The popular books most people can probably borrow from each other.