What she says at 4:11: I don't think the U.S. Library of Congress does this or anything remotely like it for digital editions--would that it did! Considering all the lost information that went into a dark hole with the loss of Geocities and Angelfire websites (thinking about the history of genre romance covers, for example)
Digital hoarding isn't free, it costs time, money, & carbon impacts
We don't have time & funding to waste chasing self-publishers around to provide the US Library of Congress w/ free material, it's misplaced anthropocentric hoarding in a world where entire ecosystems are being erased
imagine being asked to send copies of all your works to a Trump or DeSantis Library of Congress
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