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Originally Posted by Catlady
A book that's out of print doesn't benefit the author, the author's heirs, or the public at large. To continue with the "house" analogy, it's like a perfectly good house that's sitting empty and useless.
Suppose you have an author who starts writing in his or her thirties and lives to age ninety. Those early books wouldn't become public domain until about 125 years after they were written.
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Books will never be out of print again, if someone tells you otherwise, they are trying to sell you something.
I finished that free culture book on the train this morning, It's sick that we have allowed those media conglomerates such a stranglehold over the culture. The more I read, the more I view piracy as a natural right.
