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From: S. maltophilia9/5/2023 2:31:40 PM
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The Internet Archive lost an early ruling in a case against major publishers, and it led to a settlement. Based on a review of 100 books, 25% of the books will be removed because there are Kindle copies. Another 60% have cheap hard copies, and 15% would be unavailable if removed from the Internet Archive.

......As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of the amazing things that the Internet Archive
A quarter of the Internet Archive's books are going away
A citizen science investigation

.....15/100 books have no digital copy and either a hard copy for greater than $30 or no hard copy.

This was the category I worried most about in hearing the ruling. I found Bobby Seale’s autobiography A Lonely Rage via the Internet Archive and was curious what I could do if it was pulled offline by the ruling. The cheapest hard copy is $400.


This is still better than Trial by Tom Hayden, which has no copies for sale on Amazon at all.

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