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Originally Posted by Moonraker
What I am saying is, why don't book publishers do the same?
Barnes & Noble estimates there are more than 1 million copyrighted titles out of print, with 90,000 titles disappearing each year.
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You answered your own question. If the out of print (but still in copyright) books were made available as eBooks, too many people would be asking embarassing questions like:
Why is this 80 year old book still under copyright?
Why is this book, where the author has been dead for 50 years, still under copyright?
They don't want to answer those questions because the only answer is:
Because copyright is way too long.
Which will make the millions of constituents yell to get copyright reduced to something reasonable - something the Content Cartel wants to avoid at all costs.
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Originally Posted by Moonraker
There would be no need to hear the words "out of print" ever again if only they would convert their back catalogue titles to ebooks. A fair and low price for these would bring in more than having them sitting in the archives earning nothing. And what would it cost? Zero paper costs, zero printing costs and zero transport costs etc.
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But, as I pointed out today about eReader.com, an eReader eBook with DRM costs MORE than the hardcover pBook from Amazon.com.
Publishers want to change the same price for an eBook as they get for a hardcover pBook - and consumers don't want that.