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Old 12-02-2010, 11:53 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Does anyone recall Borders doing the same thing?
Yes, borders outsource SONY's book source with their skin and SONY did a similar thing. Remember the 100 free classics SONY would give away when you would buy their eReader

Sony's actions was actually worse than B&N and Amazon since they intentionally pulled books form public domain and repacaged them for sale. Their books where horrible and had no formating

SONY however sole the works from http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/.

The real issue for me isn't so much that any of these vendors are selling PD books. It's that somebody has taken somebody else's work and sold it.

I haven't read PG license in a while but I'm pretty sure this is against the license, if so then this behavior would not be legal.

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