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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
The "lack of interest" I was referring to is apathy rather than fear. If a book didn't sell well, or the author is dead and their family doesn't really care, some of the books simply will not get digitized until they become out of copyright, which runs the (admittedly tiny, but still there) risk of losing the work entirely.
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Some seem to feel that letting works get lost over time advances the arts, or they are simply indifferent to the primary purpose of copyright in the US.