Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.

• tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, no need to be a shitheel. I’m cool with paying for books, authors gotta eat. I wouldn’t refund a book I’ve read.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Totally agree with paying for recently written books. But are you cool with paying authors who have been dead for 69 years?

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    • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It depends. I’m not saying I never pirate books. I’m not going to just support a publisher milking a book that should belong to the commons.

      Also, some publishers have taken to raising ebook prices to as high or higher than hardback costs. For those I might buy one book by an author and pirate another. I won’t justify it other than to say I only ever bought paperbacks anyway and still remember those being like $3.99 to $6.99, so I’m not paying $18+ for an ebook novel because of publisher greed.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I pirate first, and when I’ve really enjoyed a book I add a physical copy to the collection. I just can’t get behind paying for digital shit, for the reasons enumerated in this thread here. I just wish there was more direct-to-creator payments. Music and literature are perfect mediums to give directly to the artists who create it. I don’t give a fuck about whoever paid fir the digital ink. Maybe the record people get a little money.

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• greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i support this against amazon, also kindly put it on libgen or anna’s for humanity’s benefit

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Buy, rip, refund, repeat.

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