http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/counting-books-published-in-the-us-from-1923/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/counting-books-published-in-the-us-from-1923/comment-page-1/#comment-1127196 TheRealBillC Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:13:44 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=26954#comment-1127196 I think it would be interesting to know how many of the fiction books published since 1923 are available at ANY price or in any form. The unwillingness of publishers to print small runs of some of this lost literature, and the straight jacket of copyright, especially after the author has died, precluding any additional works from that author, makes me glad that there is SOMEONE willing to try and preserve, in electronic format, a portion of what we are losing every year due to neglect, greed, and poorly considered legislation pushed thru congress by corporate lobbyists, who do so without regard to the bigger picture and the impact they have on all of us who love to read. I think it would be interesting to know how many of the fiction books published since 1923 are available at ANY price or in any form. The unwillingness of publishers to print small runs of some of this lost literature, and the straight jacket of copyright, especially after the author has died, precluding any additional works from that author, makes me glad that there is SOMEONE willing to try and preserve, in electronic format, a portion of what we are losing every year due to neglect, greed, and poorly considered legislation pushed thru congress by corporate lobbyists, who do so without regard to the bigger picture and the impact they have on all of us who love to read.

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