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Originally Posted by shalym
In my case, the "enrichment value" is being able to read them at all. For example, I can't find E.E. Smith's Lensman books available in print anywhere. I can get used paper copies, but those don't benefit anyone but the seller. The author is dead, and his estate obviously isn't interested in re-publishing the books.
Shari
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SF Gateway have the skylark and d'alembert ones so I suspect it's only a matter of time before they release the rest.
Given the vast number of books that weren't commercially viable to reprint, it will take time for them to be digitised, but, as near as I can tell things are heading toward everything being available as eBooks (there is certainly a huge number more backlist titles now available than there were a few years ago and this trens shows no signs of slowing down). So, as hard as it may seem in this instant gratification time, things look like they will sort themselves out so just wait a bit. Transition periods are, by definition, transitory.