@nicemicro @Hazzbenn @twipped "I could literally go, and buy a hundred books," -> The keyword here is "buy".
To elaborate on intent: Little Girl likely won't/can't eat all the empty cones but wants to resell them (or give them away to 5000 buddies at the expense of Ice Cream Man).
As for your second reply, doing statistics _at this scale_ allows producing cheap replacement of the original works which is the CD ripping/compression problem discussed above.