Oddbean new post about login | logout I don’t know if you have ever taken the time, effort, and discipline to write a book, but it is not easy. I want to exclude monopoly publishers, but I want authors to be paid for their effort. Simply downloading from libgen.is is not a solution, unless you care only about yourself.
Ah okay, that’s a bit tougher. Besides maybe contacting authors directly.
Yeah, I’m leaning toward something like: 1. Favor self published. 2. If ‘borrowed’ from libgen, do my sue diligence to look for authors nostr account, and zap them. 3. Email author if I can find an address, and suggest they investigate V4V, and set up a nostr npub so they can be zapped. 4. If none of these things work, they made a choice to work with, and support the Beast, so as much as I want to be fair to them, they may have limited my ability to do that for them by their choice.