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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
What percentage are just held as corporate "assets"? How many are not making a cent for anyone and still being prevented from copying and distribution?
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If you ask what percentage of books published since 1923 are still in print, I'll bet it is a tiny fraction of one percent. But the great majority will never be made into human-proofread eBooks.
If the US went to Life + 70 or Life + 50, the first dozen or so books that
www.gutenberg.org released might be in-print name brand novels, like
The Great Gatsby. But I think they would quickly get into territory where hardly anything is today in print.
If you look at the books, published in the 1930's and 1940's, and recently released at gutenberg.ca (and generally illegal to download in roughly half the world), hardly any seem to be in print.
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