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So an author should think: hey, I sell 1000 books to 1000 people but I know there are 2000 people who are reading it so 1000 are stealing my stuff.
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(Quoted out of context, he isn't really saying that.)
I read once where someone had estimated the average pass-around circulation of a printed book to be about "7." One person bought it, seven people read it before it fell apart, got dropped in a bathtub, was thrown away or ended up in someone's collection.
That's just part of the biz. A library buys one book, a bunch of people read it "for free." I don't have any problem with that. Whoever would expect that absolutely everybody who reads your book paid for it?
I would hope that people who patronize libraries a lot would contribute to their library, so that it can continue purchasing books. You'd have to be pretty damned poor not to be able to toss your library a few bucks now and again.