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Originally Posted by pwalker8
He was a very prolific writer, so he has a ton of niche books that he wrote. Very few of them are really commercially viable to convert to ebook, but in a situation like Guttenberg, someone would care enough to convert them. To a certain extent, like a lot of the books from the time period, they are a bit dated. For the vast majority of writers and books, by the time they come into public domain, the books and authors are forgotten. The Black Widower stories won't go into public domain until after 2070. Those stories will be long forgotten by that point. If you stop and think about writers who were writing in 1917, there is really only a handful that people remember and read.
To a great extent, the reason works go into public domain is so they can be copied and remembered.
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There's always Open Road Media or some other indie that could reprint them.