The Value of Books
The Value of Books
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- raf0
Ebooks we have today are a nicely crafted scam.
Their prices are only a little lower than print editions. At the same time, their delivery cost is substantially lower than paper books' and you don't get half of the value you did with paper.
You don't own the book you get from Amazon like you own paper books. You borrow them from Amazon, they can always revoke the book from your reader if they decide to censor it or fuck up its licensing. You cannot lend your books to people (well you "can" now on Amazon: each book once and only for two weeks). You cannot give them to people after you've read them and you cannot resell them.
You're not really buying a book, you are buying the right to read it.
- <scarabin
- lame.Dodecahedron
- Its like they actually want us to get them from torrents instead.Dodecahedron