Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
by whateveracct on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:06AM
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Why exactly does a cookbook make more sense to rent than a novel? I'm very confused by this consensus in this thread.
Cookbooks if anything seem more useful to buy since they can sit in or near your kitchen and you can grab them and use them. Whereas you read a novel only every so often past the first read?
Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead
by currency on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:47PM
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Probably depends on how you use recipes. If you prop the book up next to your work and don't want to worry about getting it messy, you'd want to buy it. If you tend to use one or two recipes per book, and copy them out and make notes and changes, you'd be happy borrowing the book for a bit.
I might be ok with renting a book if more of the money went to the author. Theoretically it could work out well for everyone. A lot of cookbooks would be a great option. Rent them for a month or do for, say, $1? Cheaper access to books for a period of time, like O'Reilly's Safari for technical books.
But I don't think that's how it's going to work out if renting is the only way to get books. I think that everyone will for forced into onerous terms of the publishers get too much power.