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Originally Posted by K. Molen
Hopefully the rise of e-books will be able to combat this trend, since it costs almost nothing to keep an e-book "in print" forever.
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It costs almost nothing for the server electricity. But I think it costs a lot, relative to tiny sales, to figure out who would get hundreds of thousands of tiny royalty payments for books published many decades ago.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Thus, there would be more books available that are written before 1923 as compared to books written after 1923, as most non-classics from both times are out of production.
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There is a middle category between classics and average books. Those in there are mostly the ones I read. AFAIK, all Pulitizer Prize winning books published up through 1922 are available as eBooks, because they are public domain. Those published starting 1923 are mostly unavailable as eBooks.