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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
I am a writer who gets most of his books (usually 50 years old at least) from abebooks.com and ebay.

One thing that would make ebooks shine would involve the copyright-holders of long-out-of-print books making them available as ebooks. It takes a large anticipated market to justify a print run. A book can justify its electronic existence on a server disk with just one purchase per year.

79 posted on 01/07/2012 8:37:49 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: PapaBear3625

I think they are already halfway there.

If you do a search on some of the more popular older books, you’ll get a return of many print-on-demand books.

That means they’ve digitized those older books and are ready to print.

Why they don’t create a pay site and make those books available for online reading or download is beyond me.


134 posted on 01/07/2012 12:42:03 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival. (Ron Paul is the Lyndon Larouche of the 21st century.))
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