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Originally Posted by HorridRedDog
I'm not saying that they are "plotting" to keep them off the market. I am saying that they MUST protect company assets. I am also saying that they dont see enough of a profit to bother with.
So if they could make a profit on these old books why wouldn't they? Lets try this one:
Big city left with no bookstore
"Barnes & Noble says it closed the Laredo store as part of an overall strategy to shut down the chain of mall-based bookstores. Even though the Laredo store was profitable..."
Back to the old, out of print books. I am saying that the officers of a company are required to protect company assets.
Like Barnes & Noble says:
"Barnes & Noble says it closed the Laredo store as part of an overall strategy to shut down the chain of mall-based bookstores. Even though the Laredo store was profitable, the overall chain was losing money, according to company officials."
Lets see. It makes money, but we'll close it anyway. 
My view is that any book that hasn’t been published in the last 20 years should be public domain. I would like it to be 10 years, but that will never happen. |
Again, I'm not arguing otherwise on any of the above. It may be true and it may not. Either way, it is of little interest to me.
What interested me was your assertion that a use by date arrangement for copyright, whereby a work would revert to PD if not published for 10 years wouldn't work because publishing companies would then publish an ebook and sell it for one day every 9 years and then stop selling it.
The idea any publishing company would do such a thing is simply laughable and I wondered if you were at all serious in suggesting such a thing.
Cheers,
PKFFW