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Originally Posted by khalleron
DavidI,
Addressing point number two - you can download most books as either an ePub or a PDF. The one's you can't are clearly labeled before you buy.
As to the quality/quantity issue - I have other places I can go for quality (although I've been unpleasantly surprised even there a time or two), but I do appreciate Google's 'quantity' approach. The fact that I can get a vast array of PD books that are not available anywhere else I think is quite valuable.
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As one data point, I purchased Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" for $5.03 (Inkmesh showed only one source with a lower price, B&N at $3.96; the others were 10-80% higher). It offers both PDF and ePub downloads, both with Adobe DRM.
Formatting is good, I have not seen any OCR artifacts, and it has both a linked TOC and NCX TOC. In addition to being able to read it on any ADE-enabled reader or app, I'm able to read it pleasantly with my Kindle's web browser, a feature unique to Google at this point (there's Ibis Reader, but it's not as usable and does not support DRM).
Obviously one book is not representative of the whole, but it is representative of the sort of value proposition I would be looking for.