| ▲ | alightsoul 20 hours ago |
| Ai companies don't use ebooks, because they are more expensive than second hand books |
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| ▲ | breezybottom 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| They absolutely do. Meta torrented 81 terabytes of ebooks. They just have no incentive to pay when the law looks the other way. |
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| ▲ | hn_throwaway_99 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The entire ironic thing here is that a huge part of those 81 terabytes of ebooks that Meta torrented were directly pirated books from Anna's Archive. | |
| ▲ | alightsoul 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I meant paid ebooks. That's probably what the commenter refers to, because that's what publishers want. Obviously ai companies don't want to pay so they try to use pirated ebooks |
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| ▲ | warkdarrior 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| On Amazon right now, retail prices for e-book copies are higher than for the corresponding paperbacks. |
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| ▲ | steelframe 15 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is exactly why Amazon has also been doing this acquisition and destructive scanning of millions of books for some time now. |
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| ▲ | bawolff 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| i imagine its because the doctrine of first sale does not apply to ebooks. |
