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Plenty of books I've tried to purchase epub or PDFs of only have Kindle rental versions. If the publishers of these authors wanted me to let me own a PDF, I'd
by DetroitThrow 2y ago
Plenty of books I've tried to purchase epub or PDFs of only have Kindle rental versions.
If the publishers of these authors wanted me to let me own a PDF, I'd gladly purchase, but until they actually do that I have several easy alternatives to getting sucked into Amazon's ridiculous ecosystem.
And this is a larger subset of books I want to buy than I would want, surprisingly.
- jazz9k 2y agoI say the same thing about GNU licensed software: if the author just gave me my preferred licensing terms, I wouldn't be forced to use it in proprietary software without compenstion.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoHow is pirating books to read them by myself comparable to proactively selling other people's work?
- drawkward 2y agoNeither belonged to you in the first place.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoAnd yet, one of these options is much more benign than the other.
- jazz9k 2y agonope.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoIndeed, it is!
- fc417fc802 2y ago> without compenstion A key point here is that GP expressed a willingness to pay. The analogy would be attempting to license a piece of GPL software that you've decided to integrate into your proprietary stack and being outright refused for ideological reasons. Still illegal but people are probably going to perceive it a bit differently.