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Originally Posted by HarryT
So you think that nobody should be permitted to publish authors like, say, Dickens or Shakespeare simply because they are in the public domain?
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If they are not adding any value to the public domain text, then yes. E-books have brought about a fundamental change in the availability of books. If a public domain work exists as an e-book then it is universally available for practically zero cost.
Selling an unchanged e-text is like bottling up the atmosphere and selling it. Fraud, plain and simple.