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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Yes, and supposing you are a successful author whose works are still read in 500 years, figuring out the estate ought to be really interesting.
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It's hard for me to think of much land, in any country, that has legally transferred from one owner to another by some non-violent legal process going back to 1512. What I am missing?
Paul Heald's chart is dead-on. If an outstanding book is old, but not public domain, there's generally no eBook.
Just today, considering what would be a long-term reading project, I checked to see if there's an eBook for
Churchill's World Crisis. There is none. But Churchill's youthful public domain works are all eBooks. This is a concrete example of what the chart shows.
If it's in the big twentieth century trough shown in the Heald chart, Project Gutenburg should be given a crack at it.