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Yeah, no, this genuinely doesn't make sense as there are legitimate repositories for these books and can do business-to-business negotiations for access to them. Even libraries have access to ebooks at bulk scale.
Those kinds of negotiations if they haven't been done by other companies before, they won't have a process for it already in place. There'd be lots of friction for the first of such deal. Both in lots of legal work and software development to make sure they only get access relevant to the deal made.
It's not something they can just be like "hey, here's the FTP URI". Because these legitimate repositories you speak of, like Amazon I guess, will already have existing deals with publishers. Currently as they stand, these deals may not be compatible with Amazon sharing their IP with other companies. So they will either have to redo those deals or restrict access of specific titles to the likes of Nvidia.
Ah yes, of course, the legal challenges of selling a copy of a book that is literally for sale 🙄🙄🙄
Yeah the existing deal with publishers is "sell my book", dummy. And no, there is no real software development work because you have genuinely no idea what you're talking about if you think it's not already just sitting in an S3 bucket with a database mapping it by those different publishers and deals. Again, even libraries have a database system that could handle this
How do you think it works when an individual buys one book? A lawyer and software developer sit down to figure out the terms and conditions and how to technically find that book in their computer system?
The development work I mentioned it you actually read it was about ensuring that specific access is given at the scale in which they need.
Plus the legal challenge is not about the singular copies of books but for it to be in a state that is suitable for the ingestion of data which would likely mean giving them specifically DRM free versions which I imagine some book publishers would scowl at.
Move those goalposts! Yeah I guess they're only option is to pirate the books then, it's not like NVIDIA has access to OCR or anything 🙄
I don't think I have moved my goalposts... I'm just reiterating the same thing I've said prior