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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
Thankfully, it's far easier to reprint books these days. So for those of us who cannot afford an original, probably some kind house will reprint at some point, even if the paper is not nearly as good.
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The one upside to the passage of time is the increasing number of people who are able and willing to seek out "niche" publications via the internet. I own books now that I would never have been able to buy 20 years ago, simply because they weren't stocked at the local bookstores and the chances of finding them used somewhere local were almost equally slim. Heck, I probably wouldn't even know of the
existence of most of the books I've bought online if I hadn't seen them or heard about them online somewhere.
It's no longer necessary to distribute huge numbers of a title to stores all over creation in the hopes that enough nerds/geeks/enthusiasts will happen on them in their local shops to make it worth a reprint. All you need is an Amazon listing for it, lol, and more and more of your niche demographic will find you. And/or be pointed in your direction because they bought something else on the same subject.