Textbooks are a $8 billion business in the US.
Some people have truly spectacular brainworms.
Textbooks are a $8 billion business in the US.
Some people have truly spectacular brainworms.
Also, libraries have to buy books, they don’t just go steal them.
And teachers don’t go to free universities either.
wtf
@cam man I’d be so rich
@thomasfuchs Published author here. I get paid somewhere in the region of 5-10p (let's call it a dime) every time someone checks one of my books out of a library, on top of the royalties from the library buying it. So yeah, if someone borrows Basic Maths For Dummies[^0], I get compensated *whether or not it turns them into a highly paid professional*.
[^0]: Available wherever good books are loaned.
@icecolbeveridge I just get the funniest replyguys
@icecolbeveridge @ids1024 this seems to be fair to both authors and readers
@ids1024 @thomasfuchs I'm in the UK. Maybe we're more enlightened over here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right
@icecolbeveridge @thomasfuchs I didn't think that's how libraries conventionally work? For physical books in the US anyway. ebook loans and other countries may work differently.
The US in particular has a fairly strong "first sale doctrine" allowing modification, sale, loan, etc. of books and such as long as you don't make a copy. But that's pretty much gone away in the digital era.
@thomasfuchs @ids1024 Agreed! I should make clear that I don't go into the library and repeatedly check out my books, tempting as it is.
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