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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
This may sound both picky and ungrateful, but I'd like to see the GK Chesterton Father Brown Omnibus actually broken up into the original five books. It makes navigating them easier.
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You are of course free to create your own books from the original on PG Australia. Why not do so, and then upload them for the benefit of others? My personal preference is for omnibus editions, which is why I create them.
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And, on a related note, Dashiell Hammett died Jan 10 1961 ... making Sam Spade etc PD in some jurisdictions in just 13 months. Yippee!
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No. Books enter the public domain at the start of the year following the 50th or 70th anniversary of the author's death, so anyone dying during the year 1961 will enter the public domain in "life+50" countries on 1st Jan 2012.
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And ... wait a sec! Doesn't that make Raymond Chandler PD already (died Mar 1959)?
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No. His books will enter the Canadian public domain on 1st Jan 2010. ie, in about 3 weeks time.