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Originally Posted by crich70
I mean take Treasure Island for example. It's available through sites like Gutenberg and I bet some publishers could have it on their sites for sale as well. So it might be both free and not free depending on where you look. At least some classic books are I imagine. So is it piracy if a book is available for free at some place like Gutenberg but being sold elsewhere?...
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Treasure Island is public domain so giving it out free is not illegal. However, if someone goes to the trouble of converting TI to e-book, properly formatting it and editing out all the OCR errors, puts it up for sale and then someone else comes along and starts giving away copies of the same edition, that would be morally wrong. Where it stands legally, I do not know.