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Originally Posted by HarryT
Once a book actually exists as an ebook, then yes, I agree. But that doesn't mean that it's necessarily economically viable for a publisher to convert their entire back catalogue to ebook format, and for older books that's really what we're talking about here.
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But that is the nub of the issue. The publisher does not see any reason to re-publish their deep backlist. But at the same time, they are actively preventing those who would do it for free, because a penny might leak out that they couldn't get. This is not a call for the end of copyright, but an acknowledgment that after a certain point, non-availability should count as abandonment, enriching the public domain....