The books in question are not antique. The Twitter post makes this claim but so far as I can tell it’s not based in fact.
404 Media published a story about this as well and cites a bookseller who notes that all of the books there have sold have had ISBNs (and are thus from 1967 or later and generally would have active copyright).
”very large purchases were of books that had little in common, except for the fact that they all had ISBNs. This seller also sells rare books that do not have ISBNs, and none of those were part of the bulk purchases”
The books in question are not antique. The Twitter post makes this claim but so far as I can tell it’s not based in fact.
404 Media published a story about this as well and cites a bookseller who notes that all of the books there have sold have had ISBNs (and are thus from 1967 or later and generally would have active copyright).
”very large purchases were of books that had little in common, except for the fact that they all had ISBNs. This seller also sells rare books that do not have ISBNs, and none of those were part of the bulk purchases”
https://archive.ph/9MQrK
This is the necessary context distilled down to be concise. Thank you.