Many old books are now out of print.

许多老书现已绝版。

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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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The proposed deal is a first step towards a global library, but an extremely small one, whose main effect is to make some out-of-print books more available.

拟定的协议是迈向全球图书馆的第一步，但也是极小的一步，主要效果就是让一些绝版书籍更容易获得。

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

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The book effort suffered a setback this week when a federal judge in New York rejected a deal between Google and publishers that would have blessed the scanning of out-of-print books whose copyright holders are unknown.

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"Many of us are objecting because we have been working together for years on the mass scanning of out-of-print books - and have worked to get books online for far longer than Google - and Google's 'settlement' could hurt our efforts, " wrote Brewster Khale of the Internet Archive in a blog post earlier this week.

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Is this, then, a test case for publishers who could work in tandem with the fans of underappreciated and out-of-print books to bring them back into circulation?

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