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Heald crawled through more than 2,000 books on Amazon.com, and found that there were more books available from the late 1800s than there were from the 1990s. Hi
by forgingahead 11y ago
Heald crawled through more than 2,000 books on Amazon.com, and found that there were more books available from the late 1800s than there were from the 1990s. His conclusion: “Copyright protections had squashed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century, keeping those titles off shelves and out of the hands of the reading public.”
THAT is his conclusion? What about radio, TV, increased film production, and finally the internet and other sources of distraction for people?
- KayEss 11y agoYou're positing that there are less books from the 1990s available because less books were written then than in the 1800s?
- dpark 11y agoTo be fair, it also sounds like an unfair comparison. A century vs a decade. And how many duplicates in the out of copyright works? The public doesn't really benefit from 100 different editions of Sherlock Holmes's early adventures that differ only in how the cover is rendered and whether the "publisher" charges 99 cents or a 1.03 dollars. Edit: Oops, late 1800s vs 1990s is not add unbalanced as a century vs a decade. The dupes are still a big issue if he didn't handle those.
- Cogito 11y agoTo clarify, because it may not be clear without looking at the accompanying graphic in the article, 1800s in this case refers to the decade, not the century. That is, more books in the years 1800-1809 than 1990-1999.