You’re confusing uniqueness with quantity. 4chan posts are not Ulysses, but they are still useful data.
My point was not that they would refuse to scan Book By the Yard quality works because they would consider them unsuitable. My point was that they don’t need to scan mass market Book by the Yard stuff, as they already have digital copies of it.
And scanning books is not as cheap as you think it is. Even using labor in low income countries, the cost of scanning is still vastly greater than just downloading a file.
You’re confusing uniqueness with quantity. 4chan posts are not Ulysses, but they are still useful data.
My point was not that they would refuse to scan Book By the Yard quality works because they would consider them unsuitable. My point was that they don’t need to scan mass market Book by the Yard stuff, as they already have digital copies of it.
And scanning books is not as cheap as you think it is. Even using labor in low income countries, the cost of scanning is still vastly greater than just downloading a file.