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‘It could disappear for ever’: Anger over sale of George Orwell archive (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Such a shame. And it will of course be rich idiots buying up this stuff and they'll be completely oblivious about what Orwell would have thought of them.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Or they bought it because they did.

[–] Gigasser@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if internet archive would be able to purchase some of these...

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That would be the job of national archives. In the past, writers or publishers would just have offered these papers for free to the relevant institutions. But these days everything is seen as a profit opportunity.