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Originally Posted by HarryT
It also allows the republication of material that has entered the public domain where this would not be economically feasible for traditional publishing. I'm studying part-time for a degree in Egyptology, and much of the seminal work on the subject was published in the 19th century, and is now freely available as page-scanned PDFs at sites like "archive.org". Previously such material would only have been available to specialist researchers at a few university or museum libraries. Digital publishing, and the scanning of public domain works by companies like Google has made a treasure-trove of material available to anyone who wants it.
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Also. And I can add: the aggregation of free and non-free material scattered in times and places (as internet) in a homogeneous ambient of reading. Noise free.