A frequent situation in specialty publishing nowadays is that this or that work is effectively out of print in that no supplier is prepared to deliver copies or to name a date on which copies could be delivered, but the work still shows up in all of the databases of “books in print”.

Now we have to work on abolishing copyright so that it no longer serves its original purpose – enabling publishers monopoly control of their industry, in order to keep a tight rein on communication to the masses (in the coincident interests of the state).

I think you’ll find that readers are quite able to provide authors with an incentive sufficient to persuade them to write.

You don’t need to reclassify photocopiers as proscribed munitions. These don’t threaten authors. They threaten publishers and the state’s totalitarian inclinations.

Nor do you need to forbid citizens from engaging in unauthorised dissemination of published works.

Which obscure cult programmed you to believe that by suspending the public’s cultural liberty copyright would persuade authors to write?

Copyright is a monopoly prized by mass producers and vendors of copies for its ability to maintain artificially high prices of copies.

When everyone can produce their own copies at next to nothing, the monopoly becomes painfully anachronistic.

However, not everyone can produce their own novels let alone such literary masterpieces as Lord of the Rings.

Where there is an enthusiastic audience of readers there is a market. You don’t need to shackle your readers’ hands unless you intend selling them copies instead of novels.

I’d sell your readers a novel. There’s a niche for that.

The market for copies has ended.