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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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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The funny thing is if your PD books are such a rarity on the net as you say, about an hour after you upload them to Gutenberg a few other people will upload them to Amazon with a price tag attached. Of course if you do decide to upload them to Amazon, someone else will just download them and then reupload at a lower price point.
