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The Invention of Scarcity (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@lemmy.world
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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if it was in stock, it's the same price as the hardcover? For an ebook? Madness.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Madness? THIS. IS. SPARTA!

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

In retrospect, Sparta very much sucked as a society.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Prolly kick your ass

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lots of people who suck would probably like to do that, yes.

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're a bit more hippie, than vikingr, aintcha?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, Viking is my ancestry and nationality, but my personality is much more modern geek hippie with a bit of punk attitude and joke Tourette's lol

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 34 points 3 weeks ago

Contact the author and ask them if you can pay them directly for a copy of it in PDF or something.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The only reasonable way I could see this happening is if the publisher had a limited time license to sell the ebook, and the contract has expired, but they still have some unsold print copies in a warehouse.

No, I don’t know why I’m trying to justify this.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

That's still a very good example of artificial scarcity.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think you're trying to justify it, I think there's a reasonable explanation because any sane human being knows that no publisher, or anybody really, wants to deal with paper copies. And I think we're just searching for that reasonable explanation.

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The bit-copying machine's cartridge is out of bits. Sorry.

[–] blx@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't we just, you know, commandeer someone else's bits?

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

You might get away with some 0's but don't even think about kidnapping anyone.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh, I was going to try to be funny by screenshotting the myanonamouse.net page but it's not even on there. Maybe they just don't sell it as an ebook.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you mean it's not on myanonamouse? First and only search result for me:

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The search results are artificially scarce.

You got lucky.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

uh... weird.

edit: oh, my torrent client is unreachable by their trackers. Maybe I'm limited until I fix it.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Sonzabitches

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Anna's Archive has a copy of the ebook for a very reasonable price