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Originally Posted by Iphinome
But you were paying for the publishing not the content as people still do today. I have dead tree copies of a fair number of PD works.
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Obviously, yes. What I wanted to say is that it didn't matter to you, you had to pay for PD and for copyrighted books. The fact that a book was in PD did not make a difference to the reader, you could not get it for free. Therefore, for us readers PD didn't matter before ebooks. So any references to the time before ebooks don't apply now.