Gatsby lover in Michigan received a scanned version of the manuscript.
Props to Gates. But should such generosity be so random in regard to books when libraries face new budget challenges, especially in paying for ebooks and audiobooks, whose use has skyrocketed during the virus crisis? U.S. public libraries can spend only about $1.7 billion a year on content of all kinds, digital and nondigital.
two national digital library systems and something else in the interest of a more literate America: shortened copyright terms.
Gatsby, published in 1925, was illegal to reproduce without authorization in the United States until yesterday, January 1, 2021, when the copyright