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but libraries pay for their books. And a library might buy many copies of a popular book.

• warfangle 13y ago
  And they lend them out. Which is considered fair use. Just like full-text search, now. As was said by a sibling comment to yours, people do this all the time in bookstores too. Corollary: Google shows a snippet of text from a website under their link. If what I wanted to find out is contained in that snippet, I won't necessarily click the link. Same thing, but instead of a pointer to a website (which, in this example, just lost a pageview), it's a pointer to an book that you can purchase. More funnels to conversion mean more books purchased.
  • jrs99 13y ago
    you can loan a book out to one person at a time. i think it's a little different.
  • jrs99 13y ago
    not every author wants to increase sales. I would rather opt out even if that led to a decrease in sales. I can't make someone else increase sales by making them use my new sales platform for free.