It's a little bit funny in a way, but for obscure works (like less popular romance novels and tv show novelizations), it's likely that someone scanning and uploading the books (i.e. pirating) them is the only way they'll avoid being lost forever.
I bring this up only because I recently read an article on this in the context of old computer games. For old, not very popular games, it's often the case that no one even knows who has the rights, so piracy is really the only way the works aren't completely lost to culture.
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