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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If the book is supposed to be free in the US and Canada, then how did 1984 get nominated in the first place since it clearly is not free in the USA?
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Then the rule should have been it had to be public domain and freely available everywhere not just Canada or the US. The criteria said public domain, not that it had to be free everywhere.
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As for the translation being agreed upon ahead of time, that I agree with. But in a case like this, only the freely available translations can be used as the idea was to make this month's book free.
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Well, I'm 30 pages from finishing the Maude translation I bought for $1.79. I'm certainly not going to re-read it just to have read the free Garnett translation. I'm guessing that whatever translation folks decided to go with the overall story will come out the same. What I've compared between Maude and Garnett weren't THAT different and didn't change what was being told, just how it was worded.