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Amazon Withholds Its Ebooks From Libraries Because It Prefers You Pay it Instead ⌘ Read more...
@slashdot Amazon is _really_ starting to piss me off. How much money does a company need to continue to make ffs?! Seriously 😳 The entire point of a publicly funded library is to increase literacy and readership for it's patrons. Perhaps if Amazon actually had some neurons left, they could reduce their prices and sell more eBooks to libraries so they have more cpoies and therefore increase readership? 🤷♂️
@slashdot Amazon is _really_ starting to piss me off. How much money does a company need to continue to make ffs?! Seriously 😳 The entire point of a publicly funded library is to increase literacy and readership for it's patrons. Perhaps if Amazon actually had some neurons left, they could reduce their prices and sell more eBooks to libraries so they have more cpoies and therefore increase readership? 🤷♂️
@slashdot @prologic it makes me more angry than most big business decisions have lately. Libraries have existed for time immemorial with their lending model and it's a major part of learning and free access to information. Amazon are the worst.
@eldersnake Yeah it's just not Amazon either, large parts of information you _could_ have typically consumed on the Internet are now either paywalled or have stupid shit like ad blocking detection and an overlay (_effectively paywalling you_). Why is the Web just turning into garbage lately? 😢
@eldersnake Yeah it's just not Amazon either, large parts of information you _could_ have typically consumed on the Internet are now either paywalled or have stupid shit like ad blocking detection and an overlay (_effectively paywalling you_). Why is the Web just turning into garbage lately? 😢
@eldersnake @prologic I'm really tired of Amazon's shenanigans surrounding books. All we can hope for is that enough frogs in the hot water reach the same conclusion.
@eldersnake @prologic I'm really tired of Amazon's shenanigans surrounding books. All we can hope for is that enough frogs in the hot water reach the same conclusion.