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Originally Posted by barryem
Now we have so many books already and so many more published each year that I wonder why we want to encourage it anymore.
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So if I want to read about the war in Syria today, I should be satisfied to read about some other, older one? And if I want to read an outstandingly researched and edited book, on a disease I was just diagnosed with, I should be satisfied to read one with outdated findings?
While I think the case for copyright is a stronger for non-fiction than fiction, it's reasonable people wish to read outstanding police procedurals where the detective uses the latest DNA tools, or where the crime is set in a nation-state that didn't exist twenty years ago, or then had a quite different type of government.