Millions of people want to watch Paul Blart 2 but only a few hundred want to read Advanced Thermodynamics, Professor McDouche, 39th Edition (USA version).
[–] Vinegar 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Several reasons:
If you're opposed to getting shafted by the texbook industry might I suggest:
If you have to buy the book yourself please help your neighbor and do everything you can to upload to any or all of these resources.
[–] 1993997? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
For most people, the only time they care about textbooks is for four to eight years of their lives. They then stop caring about education, and their piracy interests recenter on consumer media. The piracy market and leaching/seeding habits have adjusted to serve these needs.
If you want to talk about things that are hard to find, go one step beyond textbooks and try finding pirated scholarly articles. I'd rather the Internet had scientific journals for free and you had to pay to watch the latest Avengers film. Can you imagine the citations and quality on something like Wikipedia if everyone had access to peer reviewed information?
A cursory startpage search gave me Ebook Bay and this article on free ebooks. Are you lokking for niche books @rhinoferson
[–] Subtenko ago
Look, if people want this to happen then:
theres a crapton of books tho. 50 books = 15000 people scan 1 page for 300 paged books (less than a city population) x 50 states = 2500 books covered in less than 1 hour.
Seems like its plausible if you had enough people on a schedule....and the donations for a copy of the books...is there anything like this out there now,LOL?