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 be

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.