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Originally Posted by granturissimus
i'm not planning to do this, but i wonder if its possible to get one of those old out of copyright books from a hundred years ago, and type it up and publish in the kindle store and even possibly sell it on there.
is this possible/legal?
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Yes, it's legal. Yes, you can publish out-of-copyright text on Amazon. Whether you'll make any money is another matter.
There are quite a lot of copies of public domain texts on Amazon. Most of them are terrible - typos, bad formatting, etc. The difficulty is making your copy stand out from the rest. The best way to do that is by having a clean text, good formatting, excellent cover image
and some extra content that adds something to the book. E.g. Illustrations, Glossary, Introductions, Biography.
It is by no means a way to "Get Rich Quick".