Frank, who came to the catalogue in 1996 from an art history background, found there were many untranslated or out-of-print titles that should have been available to American readers.

FORBES: A Meaningful Publisher

The vast majority of books belong to a third category: still protected by copyright, or of uncertain status, and out of print.

NEWYORKER: Google��s Moon Shot

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.

FORBES: 40 Years Later, Acclaimed Novel Back From Dead

The Library of Congress and the Universal Music Group (UMG) announced today the donation of more than 200, 000 historic master recordings-many long out-of-print or never released-to the Library's Recorded Sound Section, which has more than 3 million sound recordings in its collections.

ENGADGET: Library of Congress receives 200,000 vintage master recordings from Universal, will stream them online

Having already digitized twelve million books, including out-of-print titles, Google will have a far greater selection than Amazon or Apple.

NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

Or they thought they had insurance, only to find out that in the fine print, there was some sort of lifetime limit of the sort that Paul described.

WHITEHOUSE: The Affordable Care Act & The Patient��s Bill of Rights

It also finds out where people have seen the ads--on TV, in print, online (or in some combination of these).

FORBES: Ad Vantage

Or, even worse, you may create a PowerPoint presentation with several bulleted highlights of the report and then print out that presentation and give it to them.

FORBES: Don't Write Reports; Present!