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Internet Archive @archive.org · 1 mo
More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚🕳️ Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/l...
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Violet Purple @pilotaparda.bsky.social · 1 mo
How about paying authors a fair price for the books you lend
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🇵🇸 from the Frederick to the Enchilada 🇵🇸 @markaudacity.bsky.social · 1 mo
I believe they already do that, and I think we can be fairly certain the publishers didn't have the books removed because the authors weren't getting paid fairly. ;P
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Violet Purple @pilotaparda.bsky.social · 1 mo
I can’t speak for the publishers, but the IA wasn’t paying writers the usual library book fees.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 1 mo
What is it that you think "the usual library book fees" are?
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Violet Purple @pilotaparda.bsky.social · 1 mo
I believe I already answered this in a different thread