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[deleted] t1_iqswarb wrote

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iroh18 t1_iqthb76 wrote

Agreed, but beware links to Abebooks as they are also owned by Amazon

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THE_MAGIC_OF_REALITY t1_iqtopu6 wrote

Really?? Wtf

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fivehead21 t1_iqu948s wrote

ThriftBooks is a good alternative!

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1nquiringMinds t1_iqujnzb wrote

Thriftbooks is excellent. I paid a buck or two more than Amazon for a book recently, but earned a free (under 5 or 7 dollars iirc) book in the process and got free shipping. Big ups for Thriftbooks.

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meepiquitous t1_iqt6mrz wrote

Hard to beat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

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molluskus t1_iqteasn wrote

I get LibGen for overpriced college textbooks, out-of-print work, or if you're broke and looking for something specific, but authors really should get paid for their labor. Your local library, local bookshop, or Bookshop/Bookfinder gets them paid.

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mjarthur1977 t1_iqx7zee wrote

Libraries and used books don't bring them more money...

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molluskus t1_iqxbcbs wrote

Public libraries pay for books they purchase (generally a higher price than retail bookstores) and many governments also have public lending rights that pay royalties per individual borrow.

I never said anything about used books, but they're basically considered a given and not something that can/should be fought in the first place. Used book sales are always going to exist, and have existed since the first books did. Besides, the first buyer counts as a sale, and most used books go through only a handful of readers.

Again, LibGen is great if you're broke and looking for a specific book. Not hating on anyone in that situation. But if you can afford it, or if you're looking for something more general (e.g. "a mystery novel set in the 80's"), then buying new or going to the library/bookstore, respectively, is preferable from the POV of the author.

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_iqt6odk wrote

Library Genesis

>Library Genesis (Libgen) is a file-sharing based shadow library website for scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. Libgen describes itself as a "links aggregator", providing a searchable database of items "collected from publicly available public Internet resources" as well as files uploaded "from users". Libgen provides access to copyrighted works, such as PDFs of content from Elsevier's ScienceDirect web-portal.

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femalenerdish t1_iqu1cnf wrote

Z library is a mirror for LibGen plus some additional content. I've found a few things there I couldn't find on LibGen.

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luigman t1_iqujvbe wrote

Yea, LibGen has been letting me down recently tbh but zlib always pulls through

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MiroslavHoudek t1_iqwi1kj wrote

Now if somebody made an alternative to this, which is not Russian. Currently arguably one of the few things someone might want to avoid for moral reasons more than Amazon.

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meepiquitous t1_iqx876t wrote

You can download the torrent files, and host them yourself, if you like.

Provided you have about 120 tb of disk space, of course.

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