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The proportion of books that make money 20 years after publication, after languishing in obscurity for that time, is a rounding error.

Like, how many such books can you actually name?

I think it’s a little different for music, where people sometimes sample fairly obscure old songs and turn them into hits. But then, a lot of those old songs shamelessly ripped off even older works…



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