“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    As someone who loves books, I avoid print-on-demand. Most of the time they end up with terrible, jpeg artifact ridden covers, disorganized page breaks, and terrible quality text.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, usually they’re just sourced from public-domain book collections such as Google Books (who scan older books which can end up visually messy), and I’m pretty sure some of those that are offered on Amazon were straight-up based on pirated PDFs.