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Originally Posted by HarryT
Book sales to libraries are an extremely important source of income for many authors. There are approximately 3000 public libraries in the UK - if each one buys a nice expensive hardback "library edition" of a book, that's a not insignificant number of sales.
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The kinds of figures I've heard quoted directly by authors (including sales) are pretty small. Not even minimum wage stuff. Its different I guess for best selling authors (be that Amis, or Dan Brown), but then those sales are still going to be insignificant compared to bookshop sales, and they're of course cannibalizing retail sales.