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Originally Posted by Tripredacus
You can check out Internet Archive if any of their projects apply:
https://archive.org/projects/
I'm not certain about copyright status. There are many books and magazines that get uploaded into there that are still "active" in copyright status... however, Preservation typically will have more leniency in copyright law (depends on the country of course) as preservation is not usually seen as being competition against the copyright holder. |
I think there's a process where a rights holder can make something available in some format without losing the rights. Like if you want to put a book online that never sold well, the author may allow it, but if you want for some reason to publish a hardcopy for sale they still retain the rights.
One of my stamp catalogs did that. Really good detailed book about a very niche area. The original hardcopy was $100, and the author essentially made nearly nothing or lost money. He also would send a free update once a year.
Until he made a deal with Google books. Now it's online for free and gets updated whenever he gets to doing an update. Overall that's not such a bad thing. It's in wikibooks now, I'm not sure if it's an extension of google books or a different service.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Intern..._Stamp_Catalog