Information and Ideas practice question

The bookseller would not sell the first edition, though collectors offered sums that would have kept the shop for a decade. She kept it on the counter, unlocked, and lent it to anyone who asked, on the single condition that they read it in the shop. Over forty years it was read, by her count, eleven hundred times. She said a book that is sold once is read once, and this one had better things to do.