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Originally Posted by tompe
Not all people will. We have famous example were survivors did not want to see the book in print and tries to stop it. They were not motivated by money.
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Yes, but they're an edge case. In most cases, follow the money.
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Since Wodehouse is still reprinted I would suspect the books sell a lot. Most book reading people I know own a lot of Wodehouse books.
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There are lots of things in the public domain that get printed and sold, and I know a chap who makes a nice living, thank you, making POD editions of stuff from PG. There are still enough people who want a paper copy to justify a publisher producing one, with the added incentive that is
is PD, and they can just do so without worrying about negotiating with an author or agent and paying a fee.
But meanwhile, if the Wodehouse
estate has an objection to the PG electronic versions, I'm unaware of it.
Sooner or later, a book enters the public domain, and once it has, the wishes of the estate cease to matter. There are no longer rights for it to hold. The current issue is the steadily lengthening period before works
do enter the public domain.
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Dennis