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Re:Google's effort to get ad-avoidant site visitors to pay f... by dingaling on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @02:15PM (#10583307)
> but you can get every book ever written inexpensively or free from some combination of Archive.org and Amazon.

Do people really believe this?

I've been chasing a copy of "L'envol des Alouettes" by Charles Marchetti for years. Occasionally, once every few years, a single copy appears on amazon.fr or Abe Books for around 200 Euros and is snapped-up within hours. There is not one single digital copy of it available anywhere.

And that's just one title I've had on my wishlist for over a decade.

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Re:Google's effort to get ad-avoidant site visitors to pay f... by jchewitt on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:57PM (#10583893)
You're right to correct me. Most of the works ever written have been lost to history. What I said holds for books that have been popular, historically significant, or valued enough to be widely preserved and archived.
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