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I've purchased books when I found the remaining book in a series had been published but wasn't available at the library. I've also purchased books when I've found, through exposure to the author at the library, that I like the author's work. I am a slow reader and have a lot of other things on my plate, so finishing a book within the borrowing period sometimes doesn't happen. If that happens, and I liked the book, I might buy it as well.
I think publishing executives (not the plebes) live in an overpaid, urban environment, where they have easy access to bookstores, both online and b&m and have enough disposable income that it's easy to buy the books they don't get free copies of. They can only see libraries as the enemy, not their greatest allies in marketing. They're like pre-Napster record executives.
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