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Old 09-11-2011, 03:32 AM   #1
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Making a book free on Amazon...
So last year I found an interesting book on archive.org that had been ocred, but nothing else, so it was a pain to actually read. So I cleaned it up, fixed spelling, formatting, and uploaded it here...

Recently I was a little irked to find it being sold on Amazon. Yes, I suppose it's possible that someone cleaned it up themselves just days after I uploaded it here, but...I doubt it.

Anyway, I want to upload it on Amazon and set it to free. But apparently you can't, unless you get them to price match it.

Are there other places that will accept PD books and let you set them to free? That Amazon accepts as a price match?
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Old 09-11-2011, 09:04 AM   #2
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Old 09-11-2011, 09:11 AM   #3
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Jeremy,

The way to avoid that in the future is to add a small amount of your own text to the book before uploading it here. That way, if some slimeball decides to sell it on Amazon, you can have it pulled for copyright infringement.
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Jeremy,

The way to avoid that in the future is to add a small amount of your own text to the book before uploading it here. That way, if some slimeball decides to sell it on Amazon, you can have it pulled for copyright infringement.
Wouldn't they just remove your "Harry was here" bit before they sell it? If they know enough to get a fixed version from here instead of PG I'm sure that wouldn't be beyond their capabilities.
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Wouldn't they just remove your "Harry was here" bit before they sell it? If they know enough to get a fixed version from here instead of PG I'm sure that wouldn't be beyond their capabilities.
If you put it somewhere not so obvious, like at the final sentence of the acknowledgments section, it would be less likely to get caught. Still, it's definitely not fool proof.
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