Valmond@Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Replying to @⁨PerfectDark@lemmy.world⁩

Any examples of those rare books?

Edit: of course not, what an absolute shit article. “If you don’t dislike trashing a book you’re a bad person!!!” Basically. What an ignorant idea. The article linked in the first “article” (the first contains 0 information) isn’t much better, large companies buy books nobody wants, scans them and discards them.

Guess what librarians worldwide do? Well they don’t scan the books before sending them for recycling.

So an overly emotional trash headline to generate that sweet anger and engagement IMO.

Tim_Bisley@Tim_Bisley@piefed.social

Replying to an earlier post

Still plenty to be pissed about though. As someone who does archiving it’s still enraging because they are destroying thousands of books not for archival where you destroy one copy to provide access to all, but to copy the book, rewrite it, and sell it back to you.

There’s now less copies of said book, it wasn’t archived, they stole that content, and are now selling it back to you. People will then take this stolen content and act like it’s something they created and then try to turn profit. It makes every copyright argument the publishers have ever made look like a joke. Why do publishing companies even exist?

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