>be me>glorious data hoarder and pirate>pirate movies, porn, music like an absolute madman>fill up terabytes of hard drives>literally can't get enough of it>but then there are ebooks>suddenly get this weird guilty conscience>I actually love literature and want to support the authors and the book market>still pirate ebooks sometimes, but I actually buy a lot of them too>money feels well spent>even go to IRL author readings (turns out not all good authors are dead yet lol)>look around my town>all the cozy local mom-and-pop bookstores are completely dead>only one soulless megachain (Thalia) left>everyone I know just buys from the Bezos overlords anyway>hate this shit so much>normies read less and less, and Amazon swallows whatever is left of the market>refuse to buy or gift Kindles out of pure spite, strictly using other e-reader brandsI know most of you degenerates pirate everything and couldn't care less about the book market or some starving author. But why? Why is it so easy for you to just not give a single fuck about literature dying out?
Books should be free
>>25302817The law isn't what's de jure but what's de facto. Actions speak louder than words. If they say pirating is illegal but then they don't punish anyone for letting people access Anna's Archive or for using it, that means it's not actually illegal.
>>25302861I mean it's sort of like Palau. The Republic of Palau controls an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) that spans approximately 603,978 square kilometers (233,197 square miles). Palau's oceanic territory is roughly the size of France or the U.S. state of Texas. In 2015, Palau designated 80% of this enormous EEZ—about 500,000 square kilometers—as the Palau National Marine Sanctuary. It is a fully protected, no-take zone where all commercial fishing and mining are completely banned, creating one of the largest marine reserves in the world. They have two vessels for policing this area. I'm not making this up.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Palau
lmao'ing at the zoomer girlies on tiktok convincing stuck up millenial bitches to pirate content for their ad-filled kindle.
>>25302817I don't read modern books. My favourite fiction authors went woke and rarely is anything modern published that's at all interesting. I don't care for porn books. Why would I care about bookshops that are either chains or have virtue signalling signs?I'd pay for nice, plain, leather bound smaller volumes of some books with pleasant paper and minimal decoration. Loeb but better, and of books I choose. That'd be nice. Take a pdf into a shop, set it up according to the right font, give them a hundred bucks, have my own book.
Whether you pirate or not, literature is dying anyways. So it doesn't make a difference
>>25303032you're such a negative bitch i hope your gf cheats on you
>glorious data hoarder I don't understand you peoplelet's assume for a moment that shit hits the fan, all those terabytes of dogshit digital toys will become useless, what can you do with them?what you should actually hoard? first-aid and gardening manuals, repair guides, literature on navigation and survival in the wild, how to recognize edible shitif you don't really have a goal for data hoarding then it doesn't apply to you I guess
>>25303037I'm only telling you the truth.
>>25302817>pornkys degenerate, if I had read this I wouldn't have posted an effortpost
>>25302817More than 95% of the authors I read are already dead. Even if I buy a book “to support the author”, the author gets pennies and the (((publisher))) gets everything else. If authors have a donate link and I like them I might throw them a few dollarydoos. If piracy is bad because it deprives the author of revenue, then buying books secondhand is no different from piracy, but no one debates the ethics of that.
>>25303205>then buying books secondhand is no different from piracyA secondhand book is still an original one. The autor got at least a few cents for buying the book. On the other hand a pirated book is just a copy.
In the past I spent hundreds and hundreds of dollas on ebooks and books. Enough is enough. Nowadays I pirate all books. They already earned enough from me.
>>25302817>>even go to IRL author readings (turns out not all good authors are dead yet lol)This is my policy. If the author's still alive and I read & like the book, I'll buy it.You can't justify to me buying for Brave New World on an e-reader, or LOTR, or the Bible.
>>25302866On paper it's nice, but wouldn't the local population — who I imagine struggle as this looks like a third world shit hole — benefit from having an active fishing industry to help move the economy?
>warning: take following post with a grain of salt, I hate marketing so I'm probably incorrect>>25303384>>25303205Both of these takes, as well as the implicant assumption in the OP, is that you're buying a book to support the author. That's not the game that's being played. The game is market advocacy. When you buy a book on say, late HRE politics, you are signaling to publishers that this is a topic worth investing in. That there IS a market for it. Buying it legally secondhand at most, signals to retailers that this type of book is selling. It does not signal to publisher as much that they should pay an author to write this book.Let's look at the top books being sell, and who is their market.>fantasy romance: woman/woman-adjacent audience>Christian folk-lit: Christians>feminist-thriller: womenThese are books people are buying. That have a market.
