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Originally Posted by cfrizz
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?
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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.