Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

• TheMinions@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean authors don’t see money anytime someone rents an ebook do they? Libraries just need to pay for licenses to the publisher annually from what I’ve read on reddit/Lemmy.

  I can understand renting ebooks so that your library continues to fund a digital library, but if the book is available in paper form that doesn’t really benefit the author either.

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Authors receive 25% of the ebook sale to a library in the US.

    janefriedman.com/what-do-authors-earn-from-digita…

    Libraries in Canada and the UK pay royalties for each lend.

    societyofauthors.org/…/public-lending-right-plr/

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    • TunaLobster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not a great deal for the libraries. They ebooks can come with a limited number of checkouts and cost far more.

      I switched to Kobo and have been very happy so far. I was able to download my books from Amazon and mumble and then I was able to read them on my Kobo device and store them in my Calibre library.

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    • TheMinions@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good to know! Thanks! I’ll start using my e-lending again, ever if that just means I instantly return the book.

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• yenahmik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I download books from my library to my kindle. It goes through Amazon though, so I assume I am also impacted by this BS.

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  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It shouldn’t. The DRM is on the Amazon book file format. The books I get from my library are usually epub format.

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