Thread: The Virtue of High Priced Books
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Old 05-11-2011, 12:04 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
John Milton (who lived before the copyright act) made 5 pounds from the first edition of "Paradise Lost."
Hmm. If Milton had confronted the possibility of making 5000 pounds from a popular copyright-protected epic poem, he might, given a certain level of venality, have written a crowd-pleasing one about King Arthur.

I'm glad he didn't.
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