It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.

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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.

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.

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.