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Originally Posted by leebase
All the works, in my world, would still be available. Either via public domain due to neglect, or as commercial books.
I think libraries are fine for "books for the poor". I don't think very many of the truly poor are able to benefit from project Gutenberg.
Consider a farm. You farm every year and sell the produce/live stock. But the farm continues to exist. There isn't a time where we just say "ok, farmer, your land is now in the public domain for anyone to farm and take the proceeds for themselves".
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...as long as the farmer pays the taxes on the land, and buys seed and feed to keep producing. Once they stop paying taxes on the land, the government moves in and forecloses on it.
What do authors (or their heirs) need to do in order to keep the money rolling in for the books that they produced? I guess you could say that they need to promote, but truly, most author's heirs that are still making money off of their ancestor's books do little or nothing to promote the books.
Shari