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buyucu ◴[] No.45393947[source]
I just use libgen / Anna's Archive. No need to pay money to Amazon.
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ugjka ◴[] No.45393995[source]
So how exactly pirating the books give money to the writers?
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1. trcf22 ◴[] No.45394032[source]
How different is it from going to a public library?
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2. Mindwipe ◴[] No.45394087[source]
Almost every country in the world apart from the US pays authors for library lending.
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3. morsch ◴[] No.45394411[source]
I wasn't sure how it works where I live, so I looked it up and apparently in Germany (according to Wikipedia) public libraries pay 3-4c per checkout to a central private body which redistributes it somehow.

So unless the book is checked out a thousand times over and its lifetime, buying it still dominates overall.

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4. layer8 ◴[] No.45395744{3}[source]
The libraries also bought the book originally.