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Uranium posted:“to best understand current events, please follow accounts such as Reinhardt Dreidick and TheCuckedTemplar on twitter” - a journalist You joke, but alt right youtubers are the leaders of the conservative movement. Stephan Molyneux or Sargon of Akkad will make a video on a topic and then one week later Stephens and Brooks will write on the same thing. gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1271170158896254981 It's complete bad faith. The big publishers literally give away DRM-free digital copies of their books for free to promote them. Awesome Animals posted:Great, they're going to use that precedent to stop online library services completely. Macmillan charges something like three times the SRP of their books for each digital copy plus continuing licensing fees, and those are DRM-protected. They're absolutely opposed to digital libraries of any kind.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/nytimesbooks/status/1271170158896254981 the IA started unrestricted (not backed by physical copies) lending as a response to the number of physical library closures due to the global pandemic. which was cool and good. the publishers are using the opportunity to attack physically-backed digital lending overall because they're loving ghouls.
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oxsnard posted:Just wait until people figure out how hilariously easy it is to pirate books Yeah, if you load an article on say, cnn.com without an ad blocker you're pulling down way, way more data than the file size of the average ebook
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PostNouveau posted:Seriously. Haven't paid for a book in years. I like supporting living authors who aren't worth tens of millions of dollars whenever possible but yeah
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Oh this is the thread for this topic, dang. The meltdowns from brainless genre fiction writers and ghoulist copyright lawyers has been utterly incredible. https://twitter.com/LR_Lam/status/1271400842873184259 https://twitter.com/sidmanlaw/status/1271510357488664576 Weird how that pans out.
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drat that internet archive book archive was the best place to find high quality pdf scans of public domain works.
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Now you can buy them from Walt Disney Publishing for $79.99 apiece and support the edit: these smug little shits are so loving happy to deny poor people access to knowledge https://twitter.com/tyschalter/status/1271521132299128832 "Professional writer & talker (@FiveThirtyEight, etc.). Sports things & nerd stuff. Rather cleverer than most men; mistakes correspondingly huger. He/him." What a fuckin' joke. And the natural fallout: https://twitter.com/cemerick/status/1271520883417415680 Taintrunner has issued a correction as of 20:17 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Crane Fist posted:Why are so many weird internet dudes so dedicated to mapping the contours of the belief system of this one specific woman and posting about it at every possible opportunity People were talking about the Catholic left and how weird it is, I used someone I know as an example, and people asked me about it. Seemed like a normal conversation?  Not saying I'm not a weird internet dude mind you but this seems like an overreaction Chuka Umana posted:drat that internet archive book archive was the best place to find high quality pdf scans of public domain works. Is *this* what everyone is mad at Chuck Wendigo or whatever about? He's been today's Main Character of Twitter and nothing has really told me exactly what he did.
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My thinking on this is that this is all a response to stagnating ebook sales. Print book sales have been increasing surprisingly quickly over the last few years, but ebook sales haven't grown at nearly the same rate. To these publishers, controlled digital lending is an easy scapegoat to blame for hurting ebook sales, rather than rising ebook prices and increasing consolidation of reading platforms. I don't think there's any way that eliminating digital lending would actually help ebook sales, but for the masterminds behind these attacks the appearance of action is all they really need.
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shirts and skins posted:Is *this* what everyone is mad at Chuck Wendigo or whatever about? He's been today's Main Character of Twitter and nothing has really told me exactly what he did.
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pospysyl posted:My thinking on this is that this is all a response to stagnating ebook sales. Print book sales have been increasing surprisingly quickly over the last few years, but ebook sales haven't grown at nearly the same rate. I'd wager it's a similar issue to the digital games distribution setup versus physical. ebooks are often the same price (or higher) than physical copies, and you get none of the rights that come with owning the physical edition. You can't lend it, you can't resell it, etc. That being said, the publishers going after the IA should be burnt to the ground, along with copyright law
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 if Pepsi didn’t work maybe wine will end this pesky racism problem
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pospysyl posted:My thinking on this is that this is all a response to stagnating ebook sales. Print book sales have been increasing surprisingly quickly over the last few years, but ebook sales haven't grown at nearly the same rate. To these publishers, controlled digital lending is an easy scapegoat to blame for hurting ebook sales, rather than rising ebook prices and increasing consolidation of reading platforms. I don't think there's any way that eliminating digital lending would actually help ebook sales, but for the masterminds behind these attacks the appearance of action is all they really need. It's the loving RIAA all over again. "Why aren't we selling more? Surely it can't be our wildly inflated prices, it must be those dastardly
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https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1271428954788892673quote:the Op-Ed page has gone from being to the left of the news pages to being, strangely, somewhat to their right. 
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Black and white, rich and poor. Who doesn't love discussing their favorite vintages and vintners? Even a modest cellar can "uncork" a night of robust, and sometimes ribald, debate.
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pospysyl posted:My thinking on this is that this is all a response to stagnating ebook sales. Print book sales have been increasing surprisingly quickly over the last few years, but ebook sales haven't grown at nearly the same rate. To these publishers, controlled digital lending is an easy scapegoat to blame for hurting ebook sales, rather than rising ebook prices and increasing consolidation of reading platforms. I don't think there's any way that eliminating digital lending would actually help ebook sales, but for the masterminds behind these attacks the appearance of action is all they really need. i'm looking forward to the next book in a trashy series coming out soon and the hardcopy is $19 on amazon, $15 on kindle lmao
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reminder that chuck wendig was a big warren guy lol
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/tom-cotton-op-ed.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Bret Stephens: Actually the majority of "real" Americans support massacring black peaceful protestors.
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I can't believe this mf gets paid six figures to write that drivel.quote:But the value of Cotton’s Op-Ed doesn’t lie in its goodness or rightness. It lies in the fact that Cotton is a leading spokesman for a major current of public opinion. Hmm good point Bret we should elevate the beliefs of a psychotic minority.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I’m confused he seems to be arguing that that is a major opinion but I’d it is why does it need an op ed? Bret Stephens is not a bright man. Real hurthling! posted:when will the nyt run an oped from the majority who think brett is a moron? Rules that the guy who whines about campuses and free speech quit Twitter because he got owned so hard. Groovelord Neato has issued a correction as of 01:40 on Jun 13, 2020 |
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The New York Times should publish Cotton's op-ed because it's a major popular opinion. We know it's a popular opinion because it was published in the New York Times.
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https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1271582062814859264 an actual good article in the nytimes????????????
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A big flaming stink posted:an actual good article in the nytimes????????????  Is it snowing in Hell?
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1271582062814859264 every so often they publish a good take; they let vincent bevins plug his book on the indonesian genocide a few weeks back
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A big flaming stink posted:https://twitter.com/BethLynch2020/status/1271582062814859264 Lol if the proposals in this article were implemented it would lead to more bloodshed than the proposals in the Tom Cotton one
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Absolute Yeetus posted:Lol if the proposals in this article were implemented it would lead to more bloodshed than the proposals in the Tom Cotton one How so?
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WampaLord posted:How so? they're a D&D poster who thinks cops prevent, rather than create, crime
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Groovelord Neato posted:Bret Stephens is not a bright man. https://twitter.com/dril/status/1270787621749309440?s=19
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DoubleDonut posted:they're a D&D poster who thinks cops prevent, rather than create, crime Have they been watching TV for the last two weeks?
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Random rear end in a top hat posted:It's the loving RIAA all over again. "Why aren't we selling more? Surely it can't be our wildly inflated prices, it must be those dastardly speaking of the riaa has been going through the twitch archives, including clips (taken by viewers, not the channel itself) and issuing copyright strikes
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