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Looks like the publishers are doing their best for libgen/ipfs to succeed.

Makes you wonder: Do they even have data on their business growth factors? I don't but I'd guess that:

1. nobody is printing downloaded books

2. instead, people like me _buy_ printed books after browsing through them online




They're actually pretty different sets of books.

LibGen/IPFS is heavily biased toward books from the past ~3 decades, especially books that are cracked EPUB's and PDF's.

IA seems to be much more scans of library books from ~1930-1980, many of which are out of print and probably only available to you via interlibrary loan, which you might wait a month for.

IA is a huge boon for academic research when you need to go back to midcentury books. I don't know which 500K the IA is being required to remove, but I'm very worried.


Extremely grateful for IA indeed, and as you say they have more scans that for sure are super useful for research, LLM training, etc.

Like this: https://archive.org/details/landau-and-lifshitz-physics-text...

Where LibGen only has the first volume in French and Portuguese only...


Even being good for it I can’t stand how most books are like $19.99, knowing I can find it in very good condition on ebay for $6 and get it from the library for free. If they want to sell a lot more books out of the little shops at the airports or wherevers left that books are sold today, make them cheap enough to be a spontaneous purchase again. I have some old paper backs that were like 99 cents new.




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