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Originally Posted by kennyc
Not if the publishers believe "everything has already been written" -- which is where this subthread came from.
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Luckily publishers don't base their business on beliefs, but on what sells in their experience. It won't matter to them that the book is wholly repetitive, and adds nothing whatever to the books already in public domain. If people are willing to buy it, they'll publish it. But people willing to buy a book just because it's newly written is to me still not a good reason to promote production of repetitive material through maintaining copyright laws.