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Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books (docs.google.com)
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[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It would help if we knew even just a smidgin of what these titles are.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How many are republishings? Just curious

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

There's absolutely a good number of duplicates among the list they shared.

The bigger implication is of the 4 publishers in this lawsuit, 3 of them are in The Big Five publishers, who hold rights to the vast majority of books (60-80-ish % of English language books) from this century and probably a good chunk of the last one. If they win, this is the tip of the iceberg.

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why does that matter?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

To determine the impact of losing access to them.