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How different is it from going to a public library?

• Mindwipe 1y ago
  Almost every country in the world apart from the US pays authors for library lending.
  • morsch 1y ago
    I wasn't sure how it works where I live, so I looked it up and apparently in Germany (according to Wikipedia) public libraries pay 3-4c per checkout to a central private body which redistributes it somehow. So unless the book is checked out a thousand times over and its lifetime, buying it still dominates overall.
    • layer8 1y ago
      The libraries also bought the book originally.