kma500@sfba.socialAn Empirical Study of the Impact of Library E-Lending on the Book Economy: As Public Libraries Prioritize eBook Formats, Harm to Commercial Markets Across All Formats is Quantifiable and Significant.
“[C]onsumer print sales decline by approximately 0.85 to 1.0 percent for every one-percentage-point increase in the share of e-books in public libraries, with adult fiction being at the upper end of this range.”
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How is 1% fucking significant?
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@DelilahTech @kma500 @bookstodon I think you may be misreading. It's not 1% overall, it's (nearly) 1% down for every 1% up of ebooks. That's a close to 1:1 ratio, which is very significant. This quote says nothing about the overall amount, but I'm sure the rest of the study does.
@DelilahTech @bookstodon The full study is here: https://secretariat-intl.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/An-Empirical-Study-of-the-Impact-of-Library-E-Lending-on-the-Book-Economy.pdf