In some cases, when the books had fallen out of print, Gerda obtained the rights for free.
He asked his publishers to pull Rage from publication and let it fall out of print shortly thereafter.
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Currencies have come and gone, printed and went out of print but gold has never gone out of style.
Called, simply, Parfums: Le Guide, it appeared in 1992, became a French bestseller, and is currently out of print.
"The authors I cut my teeth on and I learned to love had gone out of print, " she laments.
And I take pride that those books have never gone out of print.
The miserable little screed is out of print, but you can buy used copies on Amazon starting at one penny.
This has already started to happen among primarily mid-list authors, who do reasonably well and then their books go out of print.
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The vast majority of books belong to a third category: still protected by copyright, or of uncertain status, and out of print.
Between 40 and 50 of his books are in print in Italy and France, but he is out of print in England.
Journalists who had been exiled or kept out of print by the government in recent years have resurfaced online, with websites sympathetic to the protesters.
Gallenkamp had read Andrews' 1943 autobiography Under a Lucky Star (now out of print), became an archaeologist himself and resolved someday to write an Andrews biography.
Material which is out of print in the US, but still available for sale elsewhere, will not be added to Google Books, unless consent is granted.
The late John W. Trimmer's earnest guide to maritime safety, "How to Avoid Huge Ships, " won a prize for oddest title of 1992 and is now out of print.
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While his books have been out of print for decades, they once had enormously wide currency and were prized for their quirky but upbeat messages about self-reliance and capitalism.
The problem is the sad reality that the vast majority of books are released, have a short life for better or worse, then go out of print and are never seen again.
Or, if you get wind that someone is about to publish something threatening your gravy train, maybe you can cajole the editor to keep it out of print for a year while you prepare a counter-manuscript.
According to a recent note by UBS, print ad growth came in at negative 8.9%, below estimates of a 7.7% decline, to the benefit of other media segments which will receive funds flowing out of print media.
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In recent years, Time Inc. has been a drag on corporate-level results and revenue from the magazine unit hasn't recovered from the recession as advertisers continue to shift money out of print formats and onto digital ones.
Alas, it has never happened, and both of his published essay collections, "The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson" (1971) and "In the Spirit of Jazz" (1982) are out of print, though it isn't hard to obtain used copies.
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The book is out of print, but frenzied demand from reporters and congressional staff members desperate for clues about how Rehnquist will run Clinton's trial drove it to No. 23 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and persuaded the publisher, William Morrow and Co.
It is also a novel that readers are extremely passionate about: it has never been out of print since it was first published, and on a recent edition of BBC Radio 4's A Good Read was described as "one of the most important books ever written".
Elizabeth Ironside, she learned, is a pseudonym for Catherine Manning, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S. The rights to Garden had reverted to Manning once the book went out of print in the U.K. Lady Manning was thrilled to be published in America, and her husband, Sir David Manning, wound up hosting a book party at the British embassy in Washington, D.
Why not put out some of those great out-of-print mysteries herself?
Google has already digitised millions of out-of-print titles.
The book effort suffered a setback this week when a federal judge in New York rejected a deal between Google and publishers that would have blessed the scanning of out-of-print books whose copyright holders are unknown.
"Many of us are objecting because we have been working together for years on the mass scanning of out-of-print books - and have worked to get books online for far longer than Google - and Google's 'settlement' could hurt our efforts, " wrote Brewster Khale of the Internet Archive in a blog post earlier this week.
Is this, then, a test case for publishers who could work in tandem with the fans of underappreciated and out-of-print books to bring them back into circulation?
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Those curious to relive the spill's details should get hold of the excellent, out-of-print book by Art Davidson, In the Wake of the Exxon Valdez (Sierra Club Books).
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