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Originally Posted by HarryT
A practical example: a couple of months ago, all the "Brother Cadfael" detective stories by Ellis Peters were available as ebooks, but today they are not.
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But they're in print in paper.
I was thinking more along the lines of an author's backlist e-book, which he or she could keep selling forever. If the big booksellers won't stock it, the author can sell it from a Web site. It might sell one copy every five years, but you couldn't say it was out of print.
How could anyone be able to verify that something was absolutely, positively out of print/unavailable for a specified period to kick it into public domain? It would be a nightmare.