Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may bring it back, or it may come back when the author publishes a new book with a major publisher.

Paul Aiken

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The Amazon programs are the way copyright is supposed to work.

This sounds like the way to go. If there is a new way to extract value from a book, then the author and the publisher should share in this income.

It certainly is a threat.

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

I don't think it's particularly close under copyright law. You're not allowed to copy works for commercial purposes without a license, and that's precisely what they're doing.