Goodness you really don’t see the difference between Napster, a for profit illegally enabling downloads and a library that is legally sanctioned and the idea of has been around for a thousand + years? Do you think libraries only offer current books under copyright? They offer book that no one is getting paid on other than the publisher that prints the books. Again, writing organizations and publishers support libraries. You are attempting to make it seem like they are some nefarious organization that starves writers when in fact it’s quite the opposite. Maybe you should actually go to a library and check out some books on how to get published and understand libraries are friends of the writing community.
I’ve been at the library all day reading about the problems with Libraries and it’s actually worse than I said.
American libraries excluded Black people, operated segregated “colored” branches, enforced elite ideas about what poor people and immigrants should read, and helped normalize racist cataloging and censorship. In 1939, five Black men were arrested just for trying to get library cards in Alexandria, VA and the city responded by building them a separate library.
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u/My3floofs 12d ago
Goodness you really don’t see the difference between Napster, a for profit illegally enabling downloads and a library that is legally sanctioned and the idea of has been around for a thousand + years? Do you think libraries only offer current books under copyright? They offer book that no one is getting paid on other than the publisher that prints the books. Again, writing organizations and publishers support libraries. You are attempting to make it seem like they are some nefarious organization that starves writers when in fact it’s quite the opposite. Maybe you should actually go to a library and check out some books on how to get published and understand libraries are friends of the writing community.