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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
There are copyright law aspects.
Thus some books are copyright free in the UK but not in the US and others copyright free in the UK but not in the US. Life+50 and Life+70 countries are another obvious case.
The author or other rights holder is likely to oppose sales they don't get paid for.
Some authors do not wish to allow further publication. This is legal if they can retrieve the rights whether the reason is literary or business or both.
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You certainly have a point. I don't think that anyone is arguing than the copyright holder doesn't have the legal right to withhold a book from further publication for the term of the copyright, but I do think it's fair to say that doing so is contrary to the purpose of copyright, at least in the US.