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		tourmalinetaco on Sept 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachet... Piracy is realistically the only option for books that are not printed but also not in the public domain.

exitb on Sept 5, 2024 [–]

Big publishers don’t care for those cases, but they’d rather you don’t spend time with that and buy a fresh, new book they just printed.

account42 on Sept 6, 2024 | [–]

Right, but there is no reason why we need to let publishers have a say in the matter.

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