• IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    I’d be curious what the rationale is for publishers charging libraries more for digital copies than they do for print.

  • kinther@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Great to see we have so many readers in our area.

    Shitty to see publishers price gouging, but not unexpected in a capitalist hellscape.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Seriously. They are charging more for an ebook than an audiobook. That is batshit.

  • brotkel@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I wonder how much it affects libraries that I can also walk a block in any direction and find a Little Free Library in one of my neighbor’s front yards. These certainly don’t replace the need for libraries, but I’d also have to pass up a lot of free books on my way to the library if I ever ran out of reading material.