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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by samarthr1 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @09:16PM (#32978280)
Actually, if you were a scholar in ancient India, knowledge was mostly state funded.

Don't have a citation off the top of my head though.

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by giantg2 on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:07AM (#32979939)
That's roughly true worldwide -leader would pay for books to be written. But someone still had to pay, and copies tended to be limited. And if course then there were the book burnings to eradicated knowledge dangerous to the current leader.
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