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This is already required for new books published in the US, and has been for more than one hundred years.

It’s called “mandatory deposit”

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Actually - most jurisdictions that issue a publisher a unique root ISBN number have a stipulation that anything new published using that number must have a copy sent to them.

Looked into this a decade ago for publishing eBooks via my personal corp when eReaders and ePub were starting to hit big in the mainstream.

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