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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
People spend money on books that they should be able to read for free so they have less money to spend on books of authors that are writing books now.
Publishers spend the time of editors and presses on PD books instead of spending them on books that are being written now.
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So you would like to deny people the right to go into a bookshop and buy books by authors such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Trollope, etc? That seems to be what you're saying. You say "they should be available for free", but where do you think those free electronic texts came from? They came from published books. And what about people with no access to the internet, or the overwhelming majority who read paper books rather than using electronic bookreaders? You're going to deny them access to the classics simply because publishers dare to publish those books for profit?