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Originally Posted by acidzebra
And even if nothing goes intentionally or unintentionally wrong and the content with DRM system gets sold off to an interested bidder, the most likely result is nothing will change. The new party will (maybe) resume sales, or they might decide that it is currently not "economically viable" and shelve the stuff indefinitely.
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But, with respect, if they hold the rights to the material, that is their choice to make, just as paper books frequently go out of print when the publisher decides that sales have fallen to a level at which a new print run in uneconomic. If the author is still alive, and feels that there is still money to be made from a book, they would probably, in that circumstance, request that the rights to the book revert to them, and make new publishing arrangements.
We have to accept that books are commercial property, and rights to them can be bought and sold. They aren't something that we have some "divine right" to.