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Old 01-06-2011, 01:42 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
A great many more will be available from among in-print copyrighted works created in the computerized typesetting era. But books written in the 1930's through 1960's? Not so much, until such time, if ever, when they go under public domain.
Unfortunately, I think you make the gap much too small. I have an ebook version of a book first published in 1996 whose (Big 5) publisher clearly just pushed a paper copy through OCR and didn't properly proofread.

The fact that publishers in the 90's lacked the foresight to keep digital copies of texts for an entirely foreseeable ebook future makes me very much less confident that "ebooks will never go out of print."
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