• theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    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 overcome the technical challenge of finding that book in their computer system?

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      2 hours ago

      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.

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        2 hours ago

        Keep moving those goalposts! Eventually you’ll be “right” and saved face.

        Yeah totally, I guess their only option is to pirate the books then, it’s not like NVIDIA has access to OCR or anything 🙄