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Old 09-26-2013, 11:08 PM   #103
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
How many have been waiting impatiently for 29 years for a specific work to become public domain. And why have you been waiting? If for example the book cost $100 in 1983, and you saved a nickel a day, you could buy it in under 5.5 years. A quarter a day in slightly over a year. If the book cost 6.95 which was typical, in just over 2 years a penny a day would do it. I guess I lack the mental stamina and innate thriftiness needed to wait 30 years to save a penny or even a quarter a day so 50 would seem no different.

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Most of the works that I want to see in the public domain are unavailable. They sit languishing.

I don't like the "only a penny a day" argument. My income is severely limited. $100 is $100. Even Bill Gates does not have an unlimited supply of pennies.
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