Lord grant me the confidence of a tech bro who thinks buying a copy of a book means you've purchased the intellectual property within, but also then give me the intelligence to know that's not actually how it works, and the common sense not to bid millions on that copy of a book.
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 17, 2022
For reference.
Honestly kind of surprised it was an actual book, in this case, and not merely a NFT of a book or some dumbshit like that, you know, given how these things have been going lately.