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The effect of copyright on book sales

I thought that this chart was very interesting:

This “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.”

http://boingboing.net/2012/12/14/copyright-disappears-books.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

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

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Posted on: December 19, 2012, 6:38 am Category: Uncategorized

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