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I'm trying to figure out how 0day ebooks are sourced. To be clear, I'm not talking about release groups like bitbook or libricide but on ddl forums I frequent. Just as an example, this book on amazon has a publication date of March 7th and it's already available on places like avax. I looked into other sources like irc and nothing. They can't be buying out of pocket right?

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[–] Elieas@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

That could be part of it but I'm not sure it comes close for most ebooks. A lot of these books are professionally typeset and laid out pdfs, not sloppy calibre conversion pdfs. I don't think Amazon sells in pdf. As far as bounty forums, I just looked at one site over the last three days. It averaged 365 books per day, 199 per day with 2023 publication dates. That seems like a lot of successful bounties!