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Originally Posted by mikij
What is interesting is the following: the same PD eBooks that are free on Gutenberg and elsewhere, are sold at Amazon and other sites (B&N, Kobo, etc.).
This is quite indecent. They are not better (it seems that many are full of errors, sometimes more than the free ones), copyright is the same (free) and publishers just want to take a lot of money for no work at all.
This may push people to visit the free PD books sites, but certainly not the darknet.
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The average Kindle or Sony, etc owner will only ever buy from the built in/official ebook shop that comes attached to it. This is why JA Konrath hasn't seen any negative impact on his sales despite openly encouraging piracy of his ebooks.