Don't delete books or indeed anything. Archive if you must. Some day it might even be the only copy.
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But a VHS tape going into the Disney vault doesn’t pull it from viewers’ shelves at home. For many streaming productions, the only way they’ve ever been available to users is on that service: remove them, and their entire existence is preserved only by the pirate filesharing sites. A whole generation is again exposed to the same maddening short-termism that saw the BBC tape over its only copies of old Doctor Who episodes.
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I was working there then. A decision by accountants to save about £85 per tape in 1970s money. A lot now, but compared to production costs and the culture loss it's peanuts. They even destroyed loads of film to save a small amount in storage costs. No BBC Dr Who or anything else was "lost". It was all deliberate destruction against advice from almost everyone.
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The centralisation and simplification of consumer technology makes it easier than ever before for huge swathes of our shared culture to disappear in the blink of an eye. It’s unclear what, if anything, will reverse that trend
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As an aside, accountants and bookkeepers should only do the accounts and books and advise. None should be running businesses unless they are unusual. See also hedge funds and vulture capitalists in general.
Lose the vision and the business perishes. Most books on Economics espouse the idea that the ONLY important thing is marketing, thus logically don't bother "owning the mill", outsource. It's the importance of marketing (it is very important) being made the only thing. So you get security, accounts, payroll, HR, IT, manufacturing, cleaning, and food outsourced. Only Marketing remains. Soon no-one understands the product or the market.
Banks outsourcing IT is bonkers. They are not about counters in big halls above the vaults. They are about transactions. So they become soul-less marketing companies doing speculation on loans created elsewhere using rubbish IT outsourcing.
See UK and Capita on IT outsourcing.
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A link to quotes
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...images-linkrot