Thursday, November 28, 2002

Languishing on the Backlist "Larry Lessig received an analysis of the potential impact of invalidating the 1976 retroactive copyright extension. My gut feeling was that very few creative works from that period remained in print, with an even smaller set in circulation at the local Barnes & Noble or Blockbuster, but it is astonishing to see the numbers. Of the 300,466 books published in the U.S. from 1927-1956, only 9,240 are currently available from publishers at any price. [~] Jason Schultz I think the word for those 291,226 out-of-print books is hoard. Where's Beowulf when you need him, or Bilbo?" [Cox Crow] [The Shifted Librarian] 9:56:19 AM    comment []