Comment by BeetleB

> Imagine if we had bad cookbooks, cheap popular novels and stories, tracts on diet and self help from old Rome, or old eras in China, or the equivalent from ages before that.

It would be great, but it's a bit off topic here. The point the parent is making is that most of these works are going to be trashed regardless of Amazon's behavior. If Amazon (or any other company) is digitizing it, they're at least preserving it in some form. The alternative may well be that many of these books never get preserved.

Now would I prefer the government or an entity like The Internet Archive do this? Sure.