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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Arthur Chu Retweeted fka ☕️
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 …
Arthur Chu added,
All authors are angry that our work is being stolen and handed out for free. It’s ultimately a product that is being stolen from the creator. If it were a more physical object would you understand better?
Absolutely, but my understanding was this wasn't a regular or permanent thing, it was in response to the pandemic & quarantine. Various platforms opened their content to the public for free (particularly education platforms), and news media eliminated paywalls on some content.
The idea that it's their decision to make because it's "their content" now that they host it is the whole reason people were mad It's really not about the immediate revenue lost, it's about the precedent - this was a legal power grab
And you can agree with that power grab - take the position that separate ebook licensing rights shouldn't exist and that fair use for libraries should be much more expansive than it is But people should at least be honest that that's the situation
IA was not just doing normal uncontroversial stuff that all libraries do only for publishers to turn on them because they want all libraries to cease to exist, the way their defenders are framing it
I haven’t been following this closely, so this there is likely something obvious I missed, but maybe this actually highlights a big gap in services for libraries? Libraries are closed, and there are months-long waitlists for most digital books. This is an opportunity for
the publishing industry to figure out how to increase access
Publishers right now just genuinely don't like ebooks and think that the cheaper ebooks become and the more culturally common they are the sooner the day arrives when piracy becomes totally normalized and the whole industry collapses
I don't *really* agree with them about this but looking at the rhetoric of their opponents ("Yeah! Collapse already! Information wants to be free!") it's kind of hard to blame them
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