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The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy

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101 points kozmonaut | 2 comments | 27 Sep 25 06:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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buyucu ◴[27 Sep 25 07:57 UTC] No.45393947[source]▶
I just use libgen / Anna's Archive. No need to pay money to Amazon.
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ugjka ◴[27 Sep 25 08:08 UTC] No.45393995[source]▶
So how exactly pirating the books give money to the writers?
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trcf22 ◴[27 Sep 25 08:17 UTC] No.45394032[source]▶
How different is it from going to a public library?
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Mindwipe ◴[27 Sep 25 08:29 UTC] No.45394087[source]▶
Almost every country in the world apart from the US pays authors for library lending.
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1. morsch ◴[27 Sep 25 09:42 UTC] 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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2. layer8 ◴[27 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45395744[source]▶
The libraries also bought the book originally.