Books

10373 readers

2 users here now

Book reader community.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml

wraptile@lemmy.ml

Piracy? We've heard numerous times what r/books thinks about it. But how does c/books view it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

"Piracy" here is used in the context of books and all sorts of manuscripts.

r/books have three main arguments against it:

It is technically theft
It damages the author's job and income (as well as the publisher, illustrator...etc.)
Why go through the tedious path of pirating books when you can borrow the books from a library legally and for free.

What's your reply to those arguments? Are they satisfactory?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I try to support authors by buying on Kindle or a physical copy if I can. That being said, I don't think there is any way to combat piracy, and I think information is forever going to be free now. So I think the publishing world is going to have to catch up and evolve. Honestly if I were an author I would consider starting a Patreon.