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There's an ecosystem of paid libraries and tools around Java and C#. While developers might like to solve problems of their own, standards compliance is one place that they likely wouldn't want to tread their own path if they can help it. They've got work to do, and deadlines.

On the Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Apple and Google developer ecosystems there are plenty of shops selling libraries.

Basically where most devs selling commercial software live on.

The definition being used here for libraries and services has both being marketed to developers. We're talking about APIs, not a web product with a UI etc.

Services, in this article, doesn't refer to things that can only be built as services (e.g. because it queries a proprietary dataset) but those that might optionally be built as services (e.g. fetching and processing otherwise accessible data) and could, as easily, be built as a library.

You can totally sell libraries to business managers. You can sell sauteed rat's assholes on a stick to business managers, you just need the right sales pitch.