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I think I just found a way to save the publishing industry
If you are going to burn a book, any book, the way I see it, you've got three options.
1) You steal it. If you are a religious nutjob, you will probably not do this.
2) You take it out from the library. You should not do this because librarians know where you live, and they are not people to be trifled with.
3) You buy it. This is really your only practical option for mass burnings*.
Except, then, you are upping the sales of the very book you claim to hate so much. And financially supporting the publishers and booksellers, who, let's face it, need any sale they can get these days, and don't really care what you do with a book once you buy it.
Really, everyone wins.
* Obviously, there have been historical cases where book-burners raided universities or parents took their children's possessions to burn. But I have a hard time imagining that Bible-beaters already owned copies of the Qu'ran.
1) You steal it. If you are a religious nutjob, you will probably not do this.
2) You take it out from the library. You should not do this because librarians know where you live, and they are not people to be trifled with.
3) You buy it. This is really your only practical option for mass burnings*.
Except, then, you are upping the sales of the very book you claim to hate so much. And financially supporting the publishers and booksellers, who, let's face it, need any sale they can get these days, and don't really care what you do with a book once you buy it.
Really, everyone wins.
* Obviously, there have been historical cases where book-burners raided universities or parents took their children's possessions to burn. But I have a hard time imagining that Bible-beaters already owned copies of the Qu'ran.