Re: But what about...
But I presume you expect publishers to keep printing every book ever made, just in case you may want a copy.
If they insist on 120+ year copyright, YES, while they are still under copyright protection. We didn't choose to put the publishers in that position, they put themselves there with excessive copyright durations.
If they can't at least make our culture available to us for purchase when we choose, then they should release the work to the public domain. Simple.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
