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On 2019-03-23 7:56 a.m., heyjoe wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 03:15:53 -0700 (PDT)
> in Message-ID:
> >
> Cindy Hamilton > wrote :
>
>> no more books
>> are being purchased by libraries.

>
> That's not the case here. Multiple copies of at least a dozen newly
> written books by popular authors are purchased each month. Often,
> there's a waiting list to check out the really popular authors.
>

One of the books I want to read has a waiting list of over 800 on about
100 copies. Another has over 400 waiting on 40 copies. When interest
flags, they'll send most of them to a re-seller for cents on the dollar.