Comment by ozlikethewizard
1 month ago
Damn now im looking forward to the day when books end up like physical game disks, where somehow you're not buying the book just a license to it, what a boring dystopia this is lol
1 month ago
Damn now im looking forward to the day when books end up like physical game disks, where somehow you're not buying the book just a license to it, what a boring dystopia this is lol
As usual, Stallman already predicted this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
Darryl W. Perry predicted this: https://www.c-span.org/clip/road-to-the-white-house-2016/use...
Common for college textbooks to have some digital-only component accessed with a one-time key inside the cover. Sometimes time-limited to a single semester.
Have you ever heard of Amazon? Kindle?