People who value Wikipedia should rise to the defense of the Internet Archive, a core resource in accessing information that was once posted to the web, but later deleted. And also troves of out-of-copyright books. Not to mention the lending program for copyrighted books.
— Pete Forsyth (@PeteForsyth) June 11, 2020
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People like to draw a line between predatory publishers and regular publishers, but in a capitalist system, publishers are still stealing wages from authors no matter how “good” they are. /
— Anarchists Care About Books 🦇🌈 (@_WildeAtHeart) June 15, 2020
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and many people see ebook licenses as not honoring the right of first sale anyway. Their model is not so different than Google Books or HathiTrust, especially considering that people do not get to keep the books. /
— Anarchists Care About Books 🦇🌈 (@_WildeAtHeart) June 15, 2020
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In my experience (25 years in the industry), many publishers are grateful to libraries bc they’re such large purchasers and supporters of books and authors, hold events and readings, etc. He certainly isn’t, though! Major chip on that shoulder
— JaneAustenDance (@JaneAustenDance) July 28, 2020