"No one buys [their] books" a report on the big publisher's court testimony.
wow:
"The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. "
Yet, they sue to make sure libraries can not buy them (above and beyond copyright). They changed the laws so copyright lasts 95 years-- so no one can get to them.
good stewards of our cultural legacy?
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
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