Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free

Prior to 1964, books had a 28-year copyright term. Extending it required authors or publishers to send in a separate form, and lots of people didn’t end up doing that. Thanks to the efforts of the New York Public Library, many of those public domain books are now free online.

Source: Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain. You Can Download Them Free

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