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Originally Posted by haertig
I would assume books are similar to music. You have a copyright for the original manuscript, and then a separate copyright for the editing/publishing step.
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Some countries have a 'typographic copyright', which protects the specific page layout, so that an edition can't simply be copied wholesale, but must be reset.
In the UK, "Copyright in the typographical arrangement of a published edition expires at the end of the period of 25 years from the end of the calendar year in which the edition was first published. "