Quote:
Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
B&N has been charging for paper versions of public domain books for years. So has Penguin and a host of other publishers.
|
That's because the actual printing, warehousing, distributing etc. of these books cost money. Penguin in particular offers a lot of added valued, too, commentaries, etc. That's not true for selling the actual PG file, though.
Quote:
|
"Caveat emptor" strictly applies to how well the editions are formatted, and you can always get a sample to see if it's any better than what you'd get from PG, Manybooks or other free sources.
|
Tricking people into shelling money out for something that has no monetary value
per se is the very definition of fraud in my jurisdiction.