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Ai companies don't use ebooks, because they are more expensive than second hand books
by alightsoul 2mo ago
Ai companies don't use ebooks, because they are more expensive than second hand books
- breezybottom 2mo agoThey absolutely do. Meta torrented 81 terabytes of ebooks. They just have no incentive to pay when the law looks the other way.
- alightsoul 2mo agoI meant paid ebooks. That's probably what the commenter refers to, because that's what publishers want. Obviously ai companies don't want to pay so they try to use pirated ebooks
- hn_throwaway_99 2mo agoThe entire ironic thing here is that a huge part of those 81 terabytes of ebooks that Meta torrented were directly pirated books from Anna's Archive.
- bawolff 2mo agoi imagine its because the doctrine of first sale does not apply to ebooks.
- warkdarrior 2mo agoOn Amazon right now, retail prices for e-book copies are higher than for the corresponding paperbacks.
- steelframe 2mo agoThis is exactly why Amazon has also been doing this acquisition and destructive scanning of millions of books for some time now.