But lets see the Positive side: Now the Nazis wont have to burn thousands of books, saving tons of co2 in their Plan to take over the world with propaganda. So, yay for the envoirment I guess

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    Is there a way to donate to the authors? Because I think pirating and then donating the money (directly) to the author is much more ethical than putting a megacorp or a publisher in between

    Even better if you send it with something like Monero which doesn’t even put the bank between you and the author

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      14 hours ago

      Imagine: pirating ebooks but donating money to the author at the same time. Win win.

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      You mean the authors would actually earn money instead of the “publisher”? How unfair! /s

      When mist books were made of paper, the publishers job was quite the deal including printing, delivering, stocks, pulp the rests etc. So they took the lions share of the price together with the bookstore and the author got maybe 10-15% from the final price.

      Today it’s just theft.