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Originally Posted by Elsi
My point, exactly. Although there are 50 versions of Pride and Prejudice for sale for the Kindle, do you really think that people are purchasing them?
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Yes, I'm certain they are.
It takes many hours of work to create a really nice-looking eBook from, say, PG sources, and even when you've done that you've no idea how good or otherwise the text is as far as errors go. The early PG books (the ones that were typed in by hand) can be pretty dire, with the typist skipping sentences or even entire paragraphs. So even after you've created your eBook, if you're consciencious about it (as I was for the Dickens books I've uploaded here, for example) you have to carefully proof-read it against a good printed edition.
For many people, the time and effort involved in doing all that is well worth paying a few $ for.