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Old 09-12-2010, 06:40 AM   #11786
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Originally Posted by MacEachaidh View Post
So, pdurrant, they're making a profit in essence out of doing nothing more than electronically converting the format? And ripping off Gutenberg and its volunteers' time and efforts in the process?

Why is Amazon condoning this?

OK, I know why, because there's a profit in it for them as well. Sheesh, this sell-anything-for-a-price insanity has got to stop somewhere. Vive la revolution!
There's nothing wrong with people taking a public domain text and trying to sell it. It's not that that I'm complaining about. It's that they do it so badly!

I suspect Amazon don't try to weed out the really poorly formatted versions because they don't want to spend the resources necessary to do it, and then defend having done it.
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