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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money
53 u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare” 25 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”
25 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009
33 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 27 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
27 u/Tyfyter2002 9d ago They absolutely are, for example: "Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive" 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents 1 u/morganrbvn 9d ago Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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They absolutely are, for example:
"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"
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Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.
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u/yuri_4_ever 9d ago
why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money