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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Problem with your quote.
If the books are in libraries then people CAN read them.
Is the Atlantic trying to say that if a book was published between 1923 and 1963, that even if a person or entity owns a physical copy of said book that no one is allowed to read it.
I call either bad journalism or very bad phrasing.
Note: The article said books not electronic copies of the book.
Oh and on the physical copies, if I owned one, I could a) sell it, b) loan it to someone, c)donate it to a charity, d)throw it in the trash, e) make book trees, f) make a book safe or I could read it.
Sorry, I just don't see the big deal that a person can't get every book ever published.
Though if someone knows where I can get Mastering the Art of French Cooking cheap (paper not e) let me know. Which was published in 1961.
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Ah but which libraries have which books? And which books are on acid pree paper and which aren't? And how many copies ae there on average of a given book? With digital copies you don't have to worry about the book vanishing if the paper crumbles, gets waterlogged, or burns. There have been similar problems with other media. OTR (Old Time Radio) for example. Most of the extant 'copies' of OTR programs come from people recording a copy while listening to the original broadcast of the show. Yet Conde Nast claims it owns many of them despite not having existed when they were broadcast and despite their existence today only being possible because private citizens preserved the shows themselves.