"The amount of economic harm that the publishers are presently suffering as a result of the IA has not only never been quantified, it has not even been roughly attempted to be quantified." 🔗 "Barbarians at the Gates” by Howard Burton for @ideasroadshow.bsky.socialideasroadshow.com/barbarians-a...
How the Internet Archive is putting publishers to shameAnyone interested in developing a deep understanding of Botticelli’s great mythological works simply must read Charles Dempsey’s 1992 classic,…
I quit using Amazon a few years ago in response to - among other issues - it’s creepy data collection activities.
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Your piracy is indefensible. If your mission is "preserving the internet" you are massively harming it with your IP theft. There are lots of widely available books and films that you have pirated versions of on your site. Time for you to clean up your act, unless you are just thieves.
honestly i'd be interested in quantifying the harm done by publishers to everyone else by making all this shit pointlessly complicated. buying ebooks still sucks, and there is absolutely no technical reason for it to be that way