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As the National Book Awards came to a close on Wednesday, finalists for the prestigious literary prizes took the stage in New York to speak about the Israel-Hamas war, with others at the ceremony also choosing to address banned books.

    • Clay_pidgin
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      58 months ago

      That’s just bonkers. I’m sure the 99 cent shovelware ebook market is absolutely flooded.

      • @PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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        28 months ago

        I just can’t believe there’s that many people who can read that many books in the world.

        Like, I can read a few books a year. Not 500 a day! If everybody wrote 500 books a day we would have like billions of books written per year.

        • @UnspecificGravity@lemmy.world
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          18 months ago

          They literally cost nothing to produce and the authors get pennies on the dollar, they didn’t have to sell very many copies to make money.