Comment by ipsum2
7 days ago
What if the book has been out of print for 50 years? This isn't a contrived scenario, most of the rare books are like this.
7 days ago
What if the book has been out of print for 50 years? This isn't a contrived scenario, most of the rare books are like this.
> What if the book has been out of print for 50 years?
Same answer? They raise the price and print more copies.
You can just print even 1 copy, just the cost per print will be higher.
In fact publishers getting some profit on the tail end of books is the best thing that could happen to authors and publishing industry.
Do you understand that many of these publishers do not have the original copy anymore, and may have gone out of business entirely? 50 years ago text was not backed up to the cloud.
If there are very few copies and no one wants to even spend $100 to scan it, likely the book wont be bought by anyone in any case and it would rot/thrown away in another 50 years if AI companies had not digitized it.
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