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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Are they even being sold by the rights owners? I've seen a number of cases where old series books are scanned and sold by Joe Schmoe who's betting that the owners will never hunt him down, and most of the time he's right. Not to mention people taking Horatio Alger books from the 1800s, claiming copyright, and slapping DRM on them. It makes my quest for data from the last pages of said books (the listings of other series) difficult indeed.
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The Cherry Ames books published by Springer are 100 percent legit. Author Helen Wells's copyright was held by her brother after her death, and he assigned it to a nurse educator who was a fan of the books in her youth and wanted to get them reissued for young girls today.