Charlie Stross on Nostr: npub1gpaqv…9xlk0 npub10f7al…y69j0 Tough. Here's a thing: the US library system is ...

npub1gpaqvffj4tmy7nu0ygznk6nfkf66ckec0p4vyj24mt4f2s8fvuls69xlk0 (npub1gpa…xlk0) npub10f7altk2v7lhffhhtw60568fl9gfgpgas8yg87fe4p2yty9vjfhscy69j0 (npub10f7…69j0) Tough. Here's a thing: the US library system is broken—it doesn't pay authors (or publishers) for ebook loans. In the EU and most civilized countries there's a thing called Public Lending Right, which is a bit like streaming media payments only for library loans. The USA doesn't have it. If you did, the publisher/library "war" wouldn't have happened. As for the Internet Archive, they're fucking pirates. Hint: were they paying PLR to authors? Were they hell!