<i>Heald crawled through more than 2,000 books on Amazon.com, and found that there were more books available from the late 1800s than there were from the 1990s. His conclusion: “Copyright protections had squashed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century, keeping those titles off shelves and out of the hands of the reading public.”</i><p>THAT is his conclusion? What about radio, TV, increased film production, and finally the internet and other sources of distraction for people?