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K-Thom · 12-02-2010, 08:31 AM

1.-5. No problem; this is legal. Anyone could do that.

6. Now, here it is getting interesting. Such an action is only possible if Google & friends approve it and play along. Which they will. Their aim is to make money, also with public domain work. If such a publisher should address Project Gutenberg, he is likely to receive quite a different answer.

Those titles definitley are not out of public domain BUT they may well be out of any commercial archive trying to make money. The more important sites like PG or Mobileread exist to offer such works for free, without any commercial interest.

12-02-2010, 08:31 AM	#3
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	1.-5. No problem; this is legal. Anyone could do that. 6. Now, here it is getting interesting. Such an action is only possible if Google & friends approve it and play along. Which they will. Their aim is to make money, also with public domain work. If such a publisher should address Project Gutenberg, he is likely to receive quite a different answer. Those titles definitley are not out of public domain BUT they may well be out of any commercial archive trying to make money. The more important sites like PG or Mobileread exist to offer such works for free, without any commercial interest. Last edited by K-Thom; 12-02-2010 at 08:37 AM.