Many old books are now out of print.

许多老书现已绝版。

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The settlement, signed in 2005 and revised in 2008, covered books in the middle, those out of print but still protected by copyright.

这份签署于2005，并曾在2008被修订的和解协议，也把“孤儿书”（不再出版，但还受版权保护的书）包括在内。

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Bouquinistes' sales have dived as their carefully collected stocks of rare and out-of-print books face competition from online dealers and a change in Parisians' reading and shopping habits.

这些二手书店精心收藏的珍本和绝版书籍，由于受到网络旧书交易的竞争和巴黎人阅读及购物习惯的改变，销售额直线下降。

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books that are out of print and still under copyright, but the current holder of that copyright is unknown.

VOA: standard.2009.12.31

This has already started to happen among primarily mid-list authors, who do reasonably well and then their books go out of print.

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Also, many of Google's books are out-of-print volumes from before 1923.

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In some cases, when the books had fallen out of print, Gerda obtained the rights for free.

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