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Originally Posted by llreader
I imagine it is usually that way - you only read once. I have had the other experience - reading downloaded copies of a book made me want to buy the book in some original format (especially the good ones), because I felt like I wanted to give something to the author. Buying used books did not have this effect on me (I paid, right?), and the author got exactly nothing from me in return for some used books I enjoyed very much. This may be a corner case, though.
I think the sales numbers are a big deal, though, for contractual as well as direct financial reasons.
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The numbers are a huge deal and not just for direct financial reasons. That's also why the used book market is not always such a big deal for authors, many of those books are out of print, and they wouldn't count toward the all-important current book numbers anyway.