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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
So those rights are being sold on the cheap then? Otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell the records at those prices, right?
Still goes back to the question about books. Why don't we see the same kind of offerings for printed material (or in eBook format) as we see for music? If it is successful for one kind of media, why wouldn't that concept work for other media?
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There was a time when there was a site that sold CD's of older books. The unfortunate truth is though that they apparently were selling CD's of ebooks that they didn't have the rights to and so they were successfully sued. They had to take a lot of content down I understand and now Munsey's (once called BlackMask Online or at least the name directs there now) only deals in stuff that is known to be out of copyright. Conde Nast Corp. claims to own copyright on a lot of older stuff (they're the ones who sued BlackMask) and they don't share at reasonable prices when they do share anything (IMO). They claim to own a lot of the Old Time Radio programs and in the past were charging $40.00 or more (I think) for CD's that just hold a few episodes each. Of course they claim to have bought them from someone else who bought them from someone else or something. It's really quite sad actually because it was the efforts of fans that kept the media viable in the first place. Anyway that's why there aren't a lot of CD's or DVD's of old books etc. that are no longer in print. Human greed. Either they don't want the books in print or they want too much to allow them to be back in print even via ebooks. And of course there is the copyright law which varies in length depending on what country you are in as well.