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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
The books sold at Amazon that are copied from here or Guttenburg are normally individuals who are making a quick dime off of something.
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I've seen a number created by Amazon itself, not just the people who shell out for "How To Make A Fortune With Public Domain Books".
Oh, and don't believe the bit about it costing money to host (next to nothing) or advertise (they don't) the books. I could give an epub of Dracula to every single one of the 96,939 current members of MobileRead without making more than a dent in my available bandwidth. And I do not have Amazon's servers.
Amazon doesn't want people to know they can get free books from places like Project Gutenberg or MobileRead, because they might decide not to buy expensive books from Amazon -- and it's probable that they're selling their reader for, at best, their cost; possibly below cost. They're giving away the razor and selling the blades, and they don't want their users finding cheaper blades somewhere else.