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Originally Posted by pwalker8
To a great extent, it's books like these which I thought would be saved by ebooks. Mid-list authors who never really had a big fan base, but enough fans to at least make it worthwhile.
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Lots of those types of books
have been saved by e-books. It's just there are so many more to go. It helps if the author is alive and kicking. But even dead authors like Michael McDowell have had e-books released.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's also books like these that point out the issue with orphaned, or abandoned, books. If I were emperor for a day, the one thing that I would do is change the copyright law such that for a book to be protected after 28 years, if must be available for purchase from the copyright holder at a fair market price. [for those who wish to quibble about fair market price, it's a standard legally recognized term].
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Yeah, I do agree with that, though there's a million arguments against it. I guess that's the good thing about being emperor.