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Originally Posted by crossi
No, I think people would still buy books whose copyrights had expired. Amazon makes it easy to find the book you are looking for, it's free storage of the books plus syncing between devices and keeping track of your last page, notes and shared highlights would make Amazons version more desireable even if you had to pay for it (if the price wasn't TOO high anyway) for a lot of people.
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First of all, even if the measure is approved, the books that were written in 1990 for example wouldn't suddenly become PD. So we would be able to see a visible effect only 20 years from now.
20 years from now there would be at least one database for PD books, there are other free online storage options, and in 20 years we will have more, Amazon isn't the only one that does syncing between devices , and again, in 20 years we will have even more options.