"The Isolated Quote" Part Deux

Someone claiming to be Steven Galloway left a comment on the original "isolated quote" story, and he seemed upset about what the.effing.librarian wrote.
But if you clicked on the link and read the story, you can see that I didn't lie when I posted the quote where he said, "We should burn down the libraries because they're stealing from us."

First, if something I wrote about someone caused them to get pissed-off enough to write back, then, good.
Second, I figured if he (or someone claiming to be Steven-- I don't want to anger someone with a mental disorder) was mad, it's probably because other people made the same criticism about what he was quoted as saying in that article and he doesn't want to hear about it anymore.
And so I figured I owed him the consideration of listening to the full audio of the conversation to see if he was joking when he said it or if he was humming the "Horst-Wessel-Lied."

And, no, Steven wasn't humming.
So the audio makes it sound like everybody was sitting and joking and especially not humming.

So I want everyone to know (all 41 of you who read this) that Steven doesn't want to burn down libraries; he loves libraries. And, especially, he wants all of you to stop buying his books and to just borrow them from the library instead.

So, Steven, are we cool?

"The Isolated Quote"

Here is today's isolated, maybe out-of-context quote.

I didn't read this whole story, only found this quote, but let's assume for five minutes that I know what I'm talking about:

Steven Galloway (author of Ascension, available used from Amazon.com for nine cents):

On how Canada could make even better writers:

"You could stop signing my books out of the freaking library, then telling me about it. Writers don't get paid for library books. It's like Napster. It's worse than Napster. We should burn down the libraries because they're stealing from us."

Maybe you should tell him that that you sat around in Chapters reading his book for free then spilled an aromatic, robust African coffee all over it. What's his royalty from that?

And maybe he should kill the Amazon reseller who dares to discount his work to a value less than the paper it's printed on (9¢ from seller "xxxxxx" on 8/6/07) -- should we tell Xxx to watch out for Steve?

From what I can see on WorldCat, there are about 650 libraries (or systems) that admit to owning this book. A few may have purchased multiple copies, so libraries bought anywhere from 650 to 2,000 copies of his book.

So what does that mean? Either libraries helped to expose readers at 650-plus libraries to his work, or what? I don't understand how 650 libraries buying his book is worse than 650 individuals. Don't authors get royalties from books sold to libraries?

Or maybe he's only mad at Canadians.
Um, does anyone have a problem with that?

[note: see second part of this post here.]