Scary numbers for a Friday morning...

"98% of currently copyrighted books are out of print and effectively unobtainable." - Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive to Danny O'Brien (via Danny's excellent blog Oblomovka)

And people wonder why I have so many books? And why I love the mid list? And why I go round boosting the small press? And why I love sites like the Baen Free Library?