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A big part of the books in NEL are out of print and no electronic versions are available elsewhere, and never will, so had it not been for Internet Archive, it
by efiecho 6y ago
A big part of the books in NEL are out of print and no electronic versions are available elsewhere, and never will, so had it not been for Internet Archive, it would have been impossible to read these books and many of them had been lost forever.
If it's impossible to buy the book, why is NEL a problem for the publishers? Would they rather have that no one ever read the book again?
- arkades 6y agoBecause plenty of them aren't out of print. Publishers may or may not give a shit if you put forward a book in a fashion that does not impact them monetarily. They give a shit if you do. They definitely don't care what the ratio between the two is; they care that the latter is non-zero.