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Old 01-04-2011, 10:00 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
If you look at the winners of the Pulitizer Prizes for novels, biography, and history, you will see that, without exception I can find, all are available as eBooks if in the US public domain. And most not in the public domain are unavailable except in libraries or as used books. I've seen posters in other threads here claim that most of this stuff is on the darknet, but this is just not true.
We are in an awkward transition period, true, but that is about to change. For new works, things like these will also be published as ebooks and you will be able to purchase them. And because they are published as ebooks, they will (for the most part) never go out of print again, since there is virtually no cost to continuing to offer them. Twenty years from now, not being able to locate a copy of an ebook will be a thing of the past, aside from an ever-shrinking pool of "old" books.
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