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I was in a Kindle Book Club some years ago. The idea was to pay a little fee, from which books are centrally bought. Which books to buy was decided by voting. T
by _ink_ 3y ago
I was in a Kindle Book Club some years ago. The idea was to pay a little fee, from which books are centrally bought. Which books to buy was decided by voting. The books then would be shared with the members. There were never more concurrent users than copies purchased.
Buuut, apparently that violates some TOS and Amazon was terminating the accounts. So it's back to the shadow libs.
- hedora 3y agoYou could always buy DRM free books, or destructively scan + OCR dead tree books. For destructive scanning, the obvious question is why you’d go through the trouble and not upload it to some sort of shadow libs. I get the impression that the pendulum is rapidly swinging back to piracy as a moral imperative. I was happy paying for HBO Max due to the high quality original content, but then they fired all the actors. So, there was an implicit social contract (you produce tv/movies that generate revenue, we distribute it, and pay you for the next one), but now it has been broken. From a customer perspective, paying the middle man, knowing the people that produced the product will not be paid is immoral. (Yes, I know residuals exist. That’s not good enough.)