On Mar 18, 8:07 pm, Andrew wrote:

In the US these books may be in the public domain. In the US:

1. All books published before 1923 are in the public domain

2. All books published between 1923 and 1963 are in the public domain
unless their copyright was renewed by the copyright holder within 28
years of publication at the Library of Congress

3. All books published since 1964 are not in the public domain

Andrew

Right, exactly.

Every time I reprint a book I first check with the copyright office
and Library of Congress in Washington DC to make sure that I have the
right to reprint it, except of course in those cases where the author
has asked me to reprint his book, such as for example in the case of
"Elista Diaries" where a former world chess champion asked me to
reprint a book of his that had gone out of print.

Book sales are down world-wide as everybody reads the Internet now, so
many authors have been asking me to reprint their books just to get
them back in circulation again.

Sam Sloan