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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Once again, 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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A Gutenberg edition is not "equally easily" available as the Kindle version for Kindle users; buying from Amazon gives them instant download, saved annotations that work across all their devices, and a record of it in their Kindle library.
The version might not be "identical" either--the Gutenberg text might be stripped out, and the formatting might have (or lack) a table of contents; images might be left out (theoretically, some people would prefer books without the images), and so on.