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Originally Posted by vugtitan
$15 for one 800 year old book out of copyright is just extortionate.  |
It's not out of copyright. Shakespeare's plays are out of copyright; novelizations of them can be in copyright.
You're allowed to make your own novelizations. If you'd rather read someone else's, you'll have to pay what they want for their work.
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no wonder people can't read the classics.
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The complete works of Shakespeare are
free at Gutenberg. What you're looking for is not "the classics;" it's an adaptation of the classics to a more modern form of literature.
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there must be a cheaper way to get them such as a fan club which turns them into novels for you or some software which could turn a play into a novel in the same way as calibre converts from pdf to epub or mobi,etc...
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There are free versions.
Shakespeare Right Now has free ebook novelizations of several plays. (I'd've listed them earlier but I didn't find a direct link; they were mentioned in a forum somewhere.)