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Old 07-01-2010, 04:19 AM   #1
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Lame "All-American B&N Classics" free promo

From B&N's promotional e-mail tonight:

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Free! American Classic eBooks
Limited-Time
Free offer ends Monday at midnight
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these all public domain already? So what, Tuesday at 12:01AM they start *charging* for books freely available from the Gutenberg Projects? Jerks.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks...?r=1&PID=34447

Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Edgar Allan Poe

Federalist (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Alexander Hamilton

Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Emily Dickinson

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Henry David Thoreau

Common Sense and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Thomas Paine

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Frederick Douglass

Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by James Fenimore Cooper

Leaves of Grass (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Walt Whitman

Selected Stories of O. Henry (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by O. Henry

Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Writings (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Washington Irving

Waste Land and Other Poems (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by T. S. Eliot

Call of the Wild and White Fang (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Jack London

Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Sojourner Truth

Red Badge of Courage and Selected Short Fiction (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Stephen Crane

Daisy Miller and Washington Square (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Henry James

Ethan Frome & Selected Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Edith Wharton

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Mark Twain

The Scarlet Letter (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Babbitt (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Sinclair Lewis
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