Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

Post by andrei_says_ » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 7:23 PM UTC

carlosjobim wrote: post #84

SimianSci wrote: post #65

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If efforts like this are to be sustainable in any lasting way, participants need to be cooperative, not parasitic. I agree with the Anna's Archive team, it serves noone to have one of these players in the space hoarding their own collections and not sharing them to other archiving projects, it make the collection extremely vulnerable and at risk of becoming lost knowledge as time goes on.

No honour among thieves.

Post by slt2021 » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 7:24 PM UTC

Aerroon wrote: post #157

slt2021 wrote: post #138

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they already work almost for free, since all the money goes to the publisher and retailer. out of $20 book, the authors earn about $1 - $1.5, for e-books its about $1.7 - $2 The value from book sales goes to retailer and publisher: two large corporations, and in case of amazon - a single big corporation so please cry me a river about amazon's lost profits earned at the back of the book authors

Governments. You forgot governments. They take the bulk of the money, especially in Europe. ~25% VAT and then the publishers and retailers take their cut. The government takes another 40% in income and payroll taxes from that. The leftovers are what the author gets. Buying from yourself is probably the biggest markup you can get.

Post by CamperBob2 » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 7:24 PM UTC

Night_Thastus wrote: post #57

crazygringo wrote: post #45

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> Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? If it's judged as fair use, then yes. And then it's not flouting anything. Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. For example, nonfiction authors already "just take it" when reviews describe the main points of their book without paying t…

>the whole point of fair use is to benefit society I'll stop you right there - I really don't think that applies at all. Does 'society' really benefit when the whole thing is a funnel for enormous amounts of wealth to go to already-gigantic companies like Microsoft?

Post by travoc » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 7:26 PM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #163

crowcroft wrote: post #97

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What are social security numbers if not just another bit of information that wants to be free? Or perhaps you are saying that people that have an interest in the availability of particular information should have some control on that information's freedom...

The idea that any widely transmitted identifiers' confidentiality should be its primary method of security is asinine. The failure of any exploit regarding SSNs or the like is not on the offending party, but on each using party's failure to implement even a modicum of actual security.

Post by akkad33 » Mon, Aug 18, 2025, 7:27 PM UTC

whirlwin wrote: post #87

Just curious - What is the future of service like these? More and more content will be AI generated, to some degree. And should thereby that content be aggregated?