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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I'm not saying that you cannot sell a PD work for >0, I'm saying that if you do and the edition you are selling is identical to an edition available equally easily elsewhere for $0, then you need to inform your customers of that little fact, otherwise you are deceiving them.
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OK, so how do you propose to bridge "need to inform your customers" to "must inform your customers"?
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Sooner or later all ebook readers will be internet enabled and it will be possible to get the book onto your reader just as easily from PG as from amazon.com. Sooner or later all ebook readers will be internet enabled and it will be possible to get the book onto your reader just as easily from PG as from amazon.com.
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Well... Putting EVERYTHING that is in public domain, not only in English, but everything-everything-everything that was ever written and now is not protected by copyright laws will take some time and resources.
Are you suggesting that we need tax-funded effort to digitalize, preserve and ensure availability of public domain works?