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Originally Posted by HarryT
So you would like to deny people the right to go into a bookshop and buy books by authors such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Trollope, etc? That seems to be what you're saying.
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It's not possible for bookshops to have every PD book in existence, but that doesn't mean that they are denying people the right to go into a bookshop buy every PD book in existence.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You say "they should be available for free", but where do you think those free electronic texts came from? They came from published books.
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So? I wasn't saying that no books should be published ever.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
And what about people with no access to the internet, or the overwhelming majority who read paper books rather than using electronic bookreaders? You're going to deny them access to the classics simply because publishers dare to publish those books for profit?
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There could be non-profit organizations doing the printing, or print on demand. And the overwhelming majority on the side of p-books comes from the fact that the overwhelming majority of people don't know about ebooks and about free PD books. Also access to internet is easier that access to a bookstore.