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Originally Posted by Pinecone
When have you seen them put an old book into print (pbook) for a substantially lower price than recently written pbooks?
Throughout the history of books, when has this occured?
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If you walk into any bookstore, you will find classics priced well below current sellers. Penguin Classics is an example. These are out of copyright, public domain books which are still priced for profit for the publisher and seller, yet are well below the MSRP on the other books on the shelves. Fortunately, they are also available for free online in eBook format from Project Gutenberg and other such sites. So I would expect any book that is out of copyright to be priced below books that still have strings back to the authors. This is one of the big concerns with pending U.S. copyright law which would extend copyrights out to near infinity, mainly being pushed by the huge lobbyists for Disney and others.