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Originally Posted by HarryT
Many authors give away their books for a limited period of time - look at all the "free" download offers in the Deal forum here at MR. The fact that an author chooses to give something away for a limited period of time doesn't place it in the public domain, and certainly doesn't give anyone to right to repost it without the copyright holder's permission.
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I agree, and in principle it is also the authors right to never publish it again in electronic form. However, this is one of the cases where established laws go against what many people think is fair. A ebook version created by the author exists and is in the hands of the public (those to knew about it and chose to download), but it is now not legally available to new readers at any price. This is different from free for a while and now still available but only if you buy it.