I honestly don’t believe that’s true. People who might check something out of the library are a very large superset of the people who might actually purchase t

I honestly don’t believe that’s true. People who might check something out of the library are a very large superset of the people who might actually purchase the book. Society loses out if the browsers can’t browse, but the publishers rarely do. If anything, those browsers might one day actually purchase, if they could learn more about the item.