I volunteered at a local library at the time: this was absolutely a discussion. Books like that are also hard to handle from a budget perspective because SO. MANY. people want to read it when it came out before demand declines and you don't need a half dozen copies to meet the community's needs.
Movies SilentlyDuring the original Harry Potter boom, some librarians and academics expressed concern about kids wanting to read ONLY that. They were shouted down. "AT LEAST THEY ARE READING, THEY WILL GET A TASTE AND LOVE ALL READING SOON" Three decades on, I think we owe the librarians and academics an apology