We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...
That's a problem. And what's really bugging me? You brought the Move Fast and Break Things SV ethos to a very delicate situation at a very delicate time, and handed the publishers a made to order test case to thump everyone over the head with
I would also like to point out that this is the model libraries are currently forced to use which limits what we can purchase and costs more tax dollars. So switching to a library ownership model saves taxpayers as well as reducing wait times.
Won't be long before the GOP comes after digital everything and ban them all except for their garage, it seems they don't want for people to be educated or informed about anything. They already are working on books
The fact that a major corporation can just lose all sense of irony and remote memory hole Orwell's 1984 was what made me a hoarder www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/t...
An Amazon spokesman said that “1984” and “Animal Farm” were added to the Kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using a self-service function.
I donated 🫡 and shared on X. Good luck and thanks for fighting etherscan.io/tx/0xe6f2826...
It's bad for me because my rural library is entirely donation funded, without those books literacy goes down. Books are under enough attacks at the moment, access doesn't need to be a bigger issue than it already is for many.
Fight like hell, and I hope your appeal is successful against the money-grubbing publishers.
Dude.... I love Libby, and I would hate for it to be hamstrung. May Hermes hear your prayer and lend his help.
It's greed.
