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Pretty much EVERY book I've ever published got stolen by Meta and is listed in this database. That's over 30 books, a 25 year career output. (Need to find a UK class action lawsuit to join, or a US one that's open to non-US residents whose work was published in the USA).
https://retro.pizza/@digitalraven/114199906574357235
@cstross Please don't campaign to destroy public access digital archives. LibGen isn't created by Meta.
@truh Oh, fuck the Internet Archive too: those guys pirated works that were readily available in ebook stores during lockdown. Inexcusable and deliberate lawbreaking.
@cstross @truh I understood it was done to compensate for the closing of libraries.
Dunno about how libraries there work but. In e-materials the publisher sells this licence for the library and per the amount of licences you can lend those out.
This theft you refer to they opened the single licence to be lent out multiple times and not only once.
Pandemic was also financially bad for people. How much do you get from amazon or audible sell? Or does Bezos win?
@dimpase@mathstodon.xyz@cstross @manna @lispi314 @truh
Charlie, with all respect: one just can't get some of your books online in a legal way. E.g. your
despite what your website says, nothing on Kobo, nothing on Google Books. The e-book industry has failed you. Unless you really going to roll your own ebooks, like @pluralistic does, it's all in vain to hope that they care.
@dimpase @manna @lispi314 @truh @pluralistic Rapture of the Nerds is totally available as an ebook—download it for free from Cory's website!
