It’d be such an easy PR win to do this, but of course they aren’t. I guess for things they don’t have the rights to they probably couldn’t easily, but they could for older things. They could also create a database of it and release it when they become public domain too, which wouldn’t be that hard.
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Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
To make the books publically accessable… Right? Right??!
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
If they can publish a dataset of all of GitHub* then they can publish a dataset of all books.
* main branch head state, + some filtering and manual opt-out-apply logic
Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
To pay authors a fair compensation for consumption of their book, right?
A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
To make us enter a digital dark ages that is way more than just a digital one!