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Originally Posted by antithesis
> seem unwilling to sell their books on Amazon for more than a few years after their initial publication.
But why? Doesn't it mean more money for them?
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There's a cost involved with keeping books in print, or even running a print-on-demand service, and I guess publishers have made the judgment call that those costs outweigh the earnings when it comes to many older books. Those costs are very nearly eliminated when we're talking ebooks though, hence my hope/assumption that books published as ebooks will never cease to be available.
And even if publishers were to pull them for whatever misguided reason, there's always the black market. And possibly libraries, although I'm not sure how that works...
Does anyone have any insight into whether a library can continue to offer an ebook if a publisher decides to no longer keep it available for purchase?
Common sense seems to dictate that yes, indeed they can still lend "out-of-print" ebooks if they acquired them prior to them going "out-of-print," but common sense and publishers are sometimes at odds with each other.