• kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    They destroy them to comply with fair use laws. A judge in San Francisco ruled this practice as fair use.

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      1 day ago

      I think rare here may just mean misprints or something else rather than them destroying the one and only copy of books

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        10 hours ago

        No, they plunder antiquitarian book shops around the globe. There exist very few copies of those books around and they sure aren’t digitized anywhere.