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>>GavCo+(OP)
This is why supporting things like zlibrary is important.

One of the arguments I heard in favour of copyright was to give a financial incentive to preserve and maintain old cultural works. Lol guess that theory is out the window.

This entire debacle is only possible because of the publishers.

>>faerie+VQ
It will be interesting when these works as originally written and published enter the public domain, and the altered versions remain in copyright.

I predict that there will be an audience for reading the originals, and a market for brand new updated versions that are more skillfully done (perhaps by a bylined author), but that these specific (and rather ham-handed) publisher-edited versions will be quickly forgotten.