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Originally Posted by Iphinome
The rights of the public and the public domain do.
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What has the public domain to do with this situation?
The book in question won't enter the public domain for some ridiculous and ungodly number of years.
(Yes, I think copyright terms are far too long.)
Also - I think everyone who is advising authors to self-publish or follow other non-traditional paths should try to remember that the only people who really make money with self-published fiction are those who have already made a name with commercially published books.
As for the idea of "punishing authors," that sounds positively juvenile.