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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
You claim that the general public could not take advantage of public domain books before e-readers. This isn't true. The public took advantage of public domain books every time they read a book which was based on a public domain work.
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For a member of the public, how did you get your own personal free copy of a PD book before e-books? You still had to pay the printer/publisher. There may have been several choices instead of only one, but you could not get a free copy and would still have been at the mercy of the market.