Thread: Amazon and B&N get heat for selling Project Gutenberg books.
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Old 12-03-2010, 08:30 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
Nothing. Nor is any of the content of the book subject to copyright.

"Payment" is completely separate from "copyright," and public domain books aren't required to be free.
So if there was no DRM on the book (that you brought), you could distribute it with no consequences? I guess that surprises me a little, the producer of the book added some value (table of contents, maybe some special formatting, ...), seems as though it may be copyrightable?

I wasn't implying anything by payment, I was trying to use "brought" to identify the particular ebook you were talking about.

Thanks.
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