Chuck Wendig didn't cause this JFC If you don't think that publishers were aware of this issue until Chuck Wendig tweeted about it you're really, really not qualified to talk about ithttps://twitter.com/coopercooperco/status/1271420782133030913 …
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except they didn't really change much except giving access to a wider audience during a time of global crisis as a means of providing aid. the copies are still being "lent". not given. no different then if a library suddenly got a fresh shipment of new stock.
Uh, yes, it's completely different A library that gets a new shipment of physical books had to pay for that new shipment, with each new copy costing as much as the copies they already had IA just waved a magic wand to give themselves infinite copies, for free
Yeah, i have to think this was a specific move to trigger suits in the wake of Publishers and Authors Guild coming out last year with claims that library licensed elending is the enemy. (Authors Guild tried to walk it back when members noticed, but... yeah.)
that could be. publishers have been trying to shut down libraries for years. ebooks were just part of that.
Not the first time. Remember Internet Archive promised, "If there's a line in robots.txt file in exact format we specify, we won't crawl your Web site." But they kept crawling quietly anyway, and years later started distirbuting copies of those crawls:https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/ …
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