Show of hands: how many people check internet archive before buying a book vs checking for a 2.99 kindle copy before buying directly from the publisher? (as if

Show of hands: how many people check internet archive before buying a book vs checking for a 2.99 kindle copy before buying directly from the publisher? (as if you wouldn't buy the print copy from Amazon -- who strong arms the publishers into unsustainable prices). To be fair this is a distribution problem not a copyright issue. The claim is not that internet archive is taking credit for writing the books. They're distributing them for free. Scapegoating internet archive won't fix the bad deals with the largest distributors that are causing way more damage to their bottom line. The publishers have been screwed way worse by lax regulation, than someone distributing their books on a website most people use to look at websites archived from 20 years ago.