It's a good story, but doesn't match the facts in one case I personally know of. One of my own books is out of print, and a trainer wants to use it in a class, making his own PDF copies to do so. My publisher (Sybex) was happy to quote him a price for a PDF license for a specific number of copies. I would bet that if Kahle sat down to seriously negotiate reprint rights on any single title, the publisher would come up with a price.
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