I've yet to see any data that supports that giving away /
lending books reduces sales numbers at all.
Not exact matches
Otherwise they should stop selling
books, and start
lending them at a
reduced rate.
Responding to a question about why some publishers don't make ebooks available to libraries, Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital
Book World, said they are worried that
lending will result in
reduced sales.
I've come to the conclusion that because the library market is so small that publishers believe, at least right now, that limits that would
reduce library participation in digital
book lending is a) not a negative and b) if negative, one that can be made up with just a few purchases by readers.
As regards Fannie Mae, the company will target an approximate $ 3.4 billion reduction in
lending activity in 2013,
reducing total
lending capacity to $ 30.4 billion from last year's $ 33.8 billion
book of business.