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    infoneer-pulse: The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish The above chart shows a distribution of 2500 newly printed fiction books selected at random from Amazon’s warehouses. What’s so crazy is that there are just as many from the last decade as from the decade between 1910 and 1920. Why? Because beginning in 1923, most titles are copyrighted. Books from before 1923 tend to be in the public domain, and the result is that Amazon carries them — lots of them. » via The Atlantic

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    The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish

    The above chart shows a distribution of 2500 newly printed fiction books selected at random from Amazon’s warehouses. What’s so crazy is that there are just as many from the last decade as from the decade between 1910 and 1920. Why? Because beginning in 1923, most titles are copyrighted. Books from before 1923 tend to be in the public domain, and the result is that Amazon carries them — lots of them.

    » via The Atlantic

     
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      Nagyon beszédes grafika 2500 véletlenszerűen választott újonnan nyomtatott könyvről az Amazonról. Mi az oka ennek furcsa...
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