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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 109 points 2 months ago (15 children)

These publishers' names are:

Hachette,

Penguin Random House,

Wiley,

and

HarperCollins

Time to never buy any book from them again. I'm moving on to pirating ebooks and audiobooks. Sorry JRR and Christopher Tolkien (may you rest in peace), but I'm not buying any more of your books because they were published by HarperCollins. And I'm also not buying a lot of other books too.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

I really appreciate the sentiment, but sadly: Individual boycots that aren't attached to a concertated campaign sadly don't work. Pirate away, but you can be certain that these publishers don't know that you exist.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why after you welcome yourself to the torrent world, you should introduce two others.

[–] TheDonkerZ@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

It's like seeding but irl

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