Why is online book piracy so behind the times?

Why is online book piracy so behind the times?

Why aren't people racing to upload/download the latest releases?

Because the vast majority of Veeky Forums-esque people are tech illiterate, or at least somewhat impaired.

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I use #ebooks mostly for older books, so I haven't noticed a lack of new releases, that's interesting.

the nature of reading a book is different from consuming fast phased porn, anime, movies or music.

Because pirates are typically poor and working class people. You know, the people who don't read, and just watch TV and porn?

I just use bookzz and gutenberg for what I need desu, although I'm pretty sure the latter isn't piracy.

Because reading is becoming more of a niche activity than listening to music. And you can go through an album in an hour and want a new one. A book can last a weekend, or a month.

Also, if people didn't buy books, they couldn't show off their bookshelves and get the literary 'cred' they do when guests come over and see the shelves full of Heidegger, Joyce, Proust and DFW (same goes for bookshelf threads).

Gutenberg only releases public domain books, so no, it's not piracy.

You can get an ebook of anything remotely mainstream through piracy.

>Why aren't people racing to upload/download the latest releases?

Winds of Winter will probably get a day 1 upload to pirate bay.

>lololol plebs

More people know about art house cinema and indie music than they do about contemporary "literary" authors, deal with it.

Digitalizing takes a lot more effort and time compared to other media

>the latest releases

How does your last statement discredit the notion that they're plebs?

Because in a medium with a few centuries of accumulated total content available, prioritizing "Hot New Releases" over older books that've stood the test of time is less likely to result in a satisfactory read?

I'm just saying don't cry if you can't torrent the new Thomas Pynchon novel on day 1, and the people pirating Winds of Winter on day 1 are probably also using Gutenberg and/or reading those evil American novels from the 1920s-1960s that they made you read in high school, turning you into a butthurt patrician who can only enjoy Joyce, Proust, Pynchon, and Wallace.

Do you work at a movie theater?

What is bookzz? What are good sites to use to pirate books?

READ THE FUCKING STICKY YOU PLEB

GO LOOK ON THE ARCHIVE NEWFAGGOT

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Uncalled for. I don't really come to Veeky Forums so I asked. I also asked in an on-topic thread. Your hostility is boring and childish. There were better ways to say that instead of open, outright hostile insults.

Not many people read books, and those who read I take them as better persons than others.
I assume like me they want writers to eat. Except those already established best seller authors, 90% have economic hardships in their lives and I wont feel good like when I pirate new Star Wars movie. Writers are bums of creative arts nation.

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I have thought about this a fair bit!

You see, for movies and music there always has been the "scene" - a lose "underground" that started in the 70s, 80s. You could package a game with your demo (cracktro/animation) for personal glory on a BBS. Other forms of art such as NFO ASCII art came up alongside with those. There was a certain mental work behind the scene - who could crack the new copyprotection the fastest, and the best? (remember all the NFOs spouting stuff like "WE DO THIS FOR FUN")

Such a "scene" never came into being with books. I vaguely remember a few NFOs for ebooks but it never really went anywhere.

One of the problems is quality control - the "scene" always had a compendium of rules (at least X audio or movie quality, package your stuff in a certain way, etc.) which is very hard to quickly check with books. Let's say you make the rule that a published ebook has to have at least X misspellings per page, how are you going to check that? With movies and music you can run a script which checks in a second what the audio encoding is, with ebooks you have to carefully read the whole thing.

There is no mental challenge as with different game copy mechanisms, book DRM is trivial to remove.

I do believe that at some point we'll have more of a "scene" once ebooks spread more, but there's little motivation to start one, and their motivation will be different... (except, perhaps counter-intuitively, we'll have one once book DRM becomes more complex)

stay your cutlass, matey. tis the seas of the Chan ye be sailin, where hostility abounds and there be memes aplenty

Not now that Kindle or whatever exists.
This is more right, someone from here for instance will be very skeptical of investing time in new literature. And the kind of people that do read a lot of new books or whatever are usually normies that don't pirate anyway.

Also feels like shit to read on a screen, but I still do it for OOC stuff or things that can't be had for cheap

Kindle saved my poor back from permanent damage. Otherwise is still be carrying four or five books in my backpack still.

Not everyone is an immature millennial who thinks the "internet" should be a lawless wild wild west where everything should be unlimited and free.

Yee-haw! *shoots pistol twice in air*

I like collecting and it's cheap and easy. It's been shown that people only pirate when buying legitimately is cumbersome or more expensive than it has any right being.

>cumbersome
That's the key word, pirates are also the ones who buy the most digital media, more than people who don't pirate at all. The reason that Steam is so successful for games is because it offers an easy service to buy and keep track of games, while games only available on other platforms are frequently pirated. With music, sure you can buy a shitty mp3 off of iTunes, but it's much harder to find and keep track of a quality digital rip on an online store than to just pirate if from What. Same applies to film.

Books are definitely more expensive than they have any right being. I use a library. And before you say something about germs, I wash my books with soap and water before reading them. Incidentally, I read most books in my bathroom.