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Re:How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers by gpcz on Friday December 28, 2012 @10:13AM (#4977955)
The library was an offshoot of a small club of people called the Junto (src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Company_of_Philadelphia... ), which was a small group of people sharing books.
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Re:How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers by chris_mahan on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:09PM (#4979265)
Wait, they were _sharing_ books? Sharing? Wasn't that depriving publishers and authors of revenue? Wasn't that somehow illegal? Damn revolutionary sharers!
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Re:How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers by gpcz on Friday December 28, 2012 @05:19PM (#4979908)
The copyright issues caused by book post-scarcity would have been a nice problem to have in Ben's time. In the 18th century, the best printing technology was still the Gutenberg press, which could print about 240 pages an hour. Presses that could scale production to the point of common affordability (millions of pages/day) weren't invented until about the mid-19th century.
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Re:How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers by superuser2 on Friday December 28, 2012 @04:16PM (#4979590)
Sharing, not copying.
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Re:How Benjamin Franklin Got His First Fifty Customers by karmajunkie on Friday December 28, 2012 @05:24PM (#4979926)
As far as publishers are concerned, there's very little difference.
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