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You're positing that there are less books from the 1990s available because less books were written then than in the 1800s?

• dpark 11y ago
  To 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 ago
    To 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.