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Originally Posted by ahi
One could... assuming said pittance is smaller than the pittance rights-holders generally receive.
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What is the pittance that rights holders generally receive for out-of-print books. Is it greater than zero?
I would assume that out-of-print books are not generating any revenue for the authors anyway, so I don't really see how they are really losing much. On the other hand, they are losing control (but that was never supposed to be guaranteed by copyright in the first place).
Personally, I think either Google should not have an automatic authorization for out-of-print books, or else everyone should. I'd lean more towards the latter.