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That doesn’t sound right. There was a thriving trade in unauthorized editions of American books in England and English books in America in the nineteenth centur
by dhosek 4y ago
That doesn’t sound right. There was a thriving trade in unauthorized editions of American books in England and English books in America in the nineteenth century, since there was no mutually recognized copyright between the two countries and there was money to be made selling, e.g., Dickens’s novels in the U.S., especially if there wasn’t any need to pay the author. The ability to make photographic plates from printed material (a technology developed in the second half of the nineteenth century) also reduced the cost of typesetting.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoDickens is a pretty big outlier in sales longevity. The percentage of books that are still selling copies 100 years after they're published rounds to 0%.
- MomoXenosaga 4y agoThis goes for most entertainment. The vast majority of books, movies and videogames have sales declining after a year. Theoretically there is a 100 years copyright on StarCraft but I doubt a lot of people will buy it on GoG in 2050.