this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
103 points (100.0% liked)

Books

5224 readers
128 users here now

A community for all things related to Books.

Rules

  1. Be Nice. No personal attacks or hate speech.
  2. No spam. All posts should be related to books.

Official Bingo Posts:

Related Communities

Community icon by IconsBox (from freepik.com)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
all 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Libgen’s not going anywhere

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We know piracy is a service delivery problem, and fuck Amazon in particular, but please compensate authors if you enjoy their work.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Read whatever you want! Intellectual property doesn't exist! Culture is built cooperatively!

Buy books as merch. Spring for signed copies. Get the second version with the cool illustrations. Authors make more from these kinds of sales anyway

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

How ironic, company started to sell books is becoming one of the worst places to buy books.

At this point better off looking for an EPub/PDF copy on the publisher’s authors website sadly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sail the high seas, amazon want to fuck you, so it's largest shareholder can help donald trump tear down democracy, stop buying shit from them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

but consider sending some funds to an author's patreon or otherwise supporting them if you can. Especially small authors are often in tight financial spots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or just not buy the book in the first place. Arrrrrr.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think the option is there anymore

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, sorry, too late then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still happy I went with Kobo. So far, at least; I wouldn't be shocked if they followed suit, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Lol I bought a gen4 so I could upload my books to the kindle. Not the other way around. There are other e-ink readers, and there will always be a pirate. This is a waste of effort on their part.