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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Depends on the country.
Also, copying is one legal issue. Distributing them something else. Is it really worth investing hours of work merely for your own joy if you already own the paperbacks?
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Probably the issue here is more of "do the owners want an electronic version produced"?
There must be a lot of books from the 50's and 60's made prior to electronic typesetting which need to be properly digitised. If a publisher wanted to reprint an old book they could do so by negotiating with the legal copyright holders. Why not approach a publishing house and try to do a deal where you do the scanning and presentation work and take a cut of any profits? They probably use freelance subcontractors to do cover illustrations etc so it would fit in with their usual business model.