To make the books publically accessable.. Right? Right??!
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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To make us enter a digital dark ages that is way more than just a digital one!
It'd be such an easy PR win to do this, but of course they aren't. I guess for things they don't have the rights to they probably couldn't easily, but they could for older things. They could also create a database of it and release it when they become public domain too, which wouldn't be that hard.
If they can publish a dataset of all of GitHub* then they can publish a dataset of all books.
* main branch head state, + some filtering and manual opt-out-apply logic
To pay authors a fair compensation for consumption of their book, right?
Fuck. Repulsive.
This is viscerally upsetting and appalling.
Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge basically predicted this.