An interesting Authors Guild consumer survey sheds light on the true size and richness of demand for books, reminding us that the market may be far larger than what common sales statistics reflect. Unfortunately, the headline—”Only 25 Percent of Readers Paid for a New Copy of a Print Book or Ebook Read in the Previous Month”—positioned the results as suggesting that authors are getting cheated by the many legal ways in which books can be acquired and read, and seemed to criticize people who love their local libraries. (“The study upends a common assumption about library borrowing: the readers most […]
