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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Stonetools, my favorite authors are DEAD. They aren't creating any more books...
Examples - Mark Twain, Henry Kuttner/CL Moore, Robert Heinlein, James Branch Cabell, Mack Reynolds, Issac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, Louis L'Amour, JRR Tolkein, Theodore Sturgeon, and on, and on.....
And many of their works aren't in print either in P-book or E-book...
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You'll get no argument from me here. I find it absurd that works written prior to 1940 aren't in the public domain. Sign me up for a campaign to limit copyright terms to 70 years or 20 years after the death of the author, whichever comes later.