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A digital copy of a book is identical in value to a printed copy.
by ThrowawayTestr 1mo ago
A digital copy of a book is identical in value to a printed copy.
- amiga386 1mo agoThis is entirely untrue. Simple example: Actual book from 1732 (rare, original, older than your country): https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Compleat-City-and-Country-Cook-by-Carter-Charles/2900000823228 https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Compleat-City-... -- yours for £1,258.00 A scan of the same edition of that book: https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-compleat-city-and-co_carter-charles_1732 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-compl... -- free. Nobody's paying any money for the digital copy. I don't think you understand the book itself is a collectible object with rarity and value, regardless of the information it contains.
- _djo_ 1mo agoPlus, the physical copy of the book has additional value in terms of forensic verifiability. You can prove the originality of the text and the absence of alterations, and can easily track changes between editions. Digital copies can be altered at whim, as the only means to provide any sort of tracking or verifiability is through another external software system that itself has to be trusted.
- TiredOfLife 1mo agoNFT's