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On the order of 200,000 new books are published in the United States every year (and I am not even sure if that includes indie titles). Even if copyright was shortened to the original term of 14 years, that means 2.8 million books would be in copyright at any given time. The consumer is already overwhelmed by more books in any given year than they could possibly read in a life time. All this means is a large public domain is unlikely to significantly impact the basic fact that too many books are published to sustain more than a tiny percentage of authors as their sole source of income.
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Bill
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