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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Not under a system of perpetual copyright, or a system with no copyright.
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You said "no books are sold." Not "no books
will be sold." "Are" describes now, not the unlikely event that certain radical transformations take place in the
future.
Perpetual copyright would not end sales of books. It would mean that the vast majority of books that didn't retail commercial value would disappear into limbo, but the books that people still wanted to read in the distant future would be sold. With no copyright, books would not be sold, but they also probably wouldn't be written in the first place.