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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Libraries where good for before the XXI century. Nowadays the amount of content they had is pretty small. Most libraries don't really has anything but the more famous books.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They became community hubs that offer more than just books. Even ebooks albeit that being weirdly capped by publishers as well.

They do much more than public opinion would make you believe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True, but that doesn't change the fact that specific books can be hard to find. Libraries are great, but they don't solve the problem IA solves.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We got a nationwide network of specific books. You can order books to your local library if you are a little patient. They might not have a lot of selfpublished books but that is a problem of scale and negotiating power of publishers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's pretty sweet! I grew up in an area with a county system, so you could get books from anywhere in the system (a dozen or so citires serving >1M people).

My current library is just our city, but I can go to a few other cities to check out books, but I can't use holds there unless I pay $2-3/item to have it delivered to my library. We have a statewide ebook/audiobook network (serves 3-4M people), so that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

i would fuck with public libraries if they had stocks of educational material, as well as communal spaces, which they generally do so.