• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    40
    ·
    6 months ago

    If they don’t want people pirating books- textbooks anyway- stop making the ebook version ridiculously fucking expensive.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      ·
      6 months ago

      Pearson and Peachtree Press run a racket in scholastic literature. I’ve had professors tell the class how to pirate their own textbook rather than buying it from the campus bookstore.

    • paraphrand@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      I once had a faculty member tell everyone at a meeting that her students could download the required textbook at something called ebooks3000. And I looked it up quick and discovered it was a book piracy website. 🤦‍♂️