Capitalism burning down today's equivalent of the library of Alexandria.
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Th4tGuyII - 1.5yr
Won't somebody please think of the capitalists!
What would these publishers do if they had to be charitable and not force libraries to pay >1000% more than retail for a digital version of their book just so children from impoverished communities could have access to them!?
Those poor fat cats would starve I tell you! starve!!
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I_Miss_Daniel @lemmy.world - 1.5yr
These things come in torrents?
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jabathekek @sopuli.xyz - 1.5yr
I wonder if there's a list of books that were deleted that could all be placed in a single torrent file? 🤔
fossilesque in academia
500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/Capitalism burning down today's equivalent of the library of Alexandria.
Won't somebody please think of the capitalists!
What would these publishers do if they had to be charitable and not force libraries to pay >1000% more than retail for a digital version of their book just so children from impoverished communities could have access to them!?
Those poor fat cats would starve I tell you! starve!!
These things come in torrents?
I wonder if there's a list of books that were deleted that could all be placed in a single torrent file? 🤔
*That would be very approximately 1.3-2.7 tb.
https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/302/is-there-a-good-size-comparison-of-which-of-different-e-book-formats-is-smaller
https://www.howtogeek.com/801844/how-many-ebooks-can-fit-on-a-kindle/
Grrrr, I say!