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Old 04-16-2011, 12:21 PM   #9
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by cfrizz View Post
It's about the buyer beware. If something is public domain with the author long being dead, why on earth would you pay for it?
Because you don't have access to the book otherwise. "Public domain" doesn't mean "nobody is allowed to charge for this."

I have some digital collections of public domain works that aren't available anywhere on the web. I've considered cleaning them up & offering them for sale. (I've more seriously considered just offering them to Gutenberg or similar sites.) Gutenberg, Google & Archive.net's collections, while impressive, are hardly the entire set of public domain literature, and nothing requires a person who's got a book not in those sets to offer digital conversion for free.
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