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500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Won't somebody please think of the capitalists!

What would these publishers do if they had to be charitable and not force libraries to pay >1000% more than retail for a digital version of their book just so children from impoverished communities could have access to them!?

Those poor fat cats would starve I tell you! starve!!