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Ending Book Hunger This page intentionally left blank Ending Book Hunger Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture Lea Shaver New Haven & London Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the Class of 1907, Yale College. Copyright © 2019 by Lea Shaver. The author has made a digital version of this book available at no charge at http://www.bookhunger.org. This book is licensed for public use under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Under its terms, you are free to make and share a copy, translation, recording, or excerpt of this book for personal, educational, charitable, or other noncommercial purposes. For complete terms, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. This book may not be reproduced for commercial advantage, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. Yale University Press books may be purchased in quantity for educa- tional, business, or promotional use. For information, please e-mail [email protected] (U.S. offi ce) or [email protected] (U.K. offi ce). Set in Janson type by IDS Infotech Ltd. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN 978-0-300-22600-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) Library of Congress Control Number: 2019941035 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents one Book Hunger 1 two Making Books Affordable 15 three Refl ecting Diversity 27 four Serving All Languages 46 five Reinventing Distribution 64 six Going Digital 79 Contents seven Negotiating Permissions 96 eight Fair Use of Existing Books 111 nine New Copyright Exceptions 125 ten Choosing Open Licenses 141 eleven Rethinking Incentives 154 twelve All Children Reading 167 Organizations Profi led 185 Bibliography 189 Acknowledgments 195 Index 201 vi Ending Book Hunger This page intentionally left blank one Book Hunger “Half the world suffers from hunger. The other half wants to lose weight.” So read a slogan I once saw chalked on a campus sidewalk. Its irony was aimed at the global food crisis, but the same paradox holds true for books. If you are reading this book, you almost surely belong to the latter group. As readers in a world of abundance, you and I struggle to manage our textual diets in the limited time we have. Amazon.com now offers more than a million ti- tles for instant digital delivery. Whether we use a library, a bookstore, or a digital device, our main challenge is choosing among all the appetizing options. For most of the world’s population, however, things are very different. In the 1980s, economic crises across 1
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