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usonian

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1. This may impact your local library.
Sat Dec 7, 2024, 11:01 AM
Dec 7

Either in its digital lending or physical lending of books, or both, basically ending the libraries' existence (oh, maybe publishers will let you read within the library walls. Maybe. )

And it may make loaning a book to a friend or family member "illegal" not in the sense of the law, but by suing the crap out of you and Cousin Eddie until you're bankrupt.

Publishers' greed knows no end, since they were always parasites on writers. And want it all.





Fair use? No such thing. Only fair abuse of both authors and readers. Highwaymen. F--- them. They not only encourage dark markets; their insatiable trollish greed creates dark markets.

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