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Originally Posted by The Terminator
I've checked ebay and most of the books on the discs are PD. I think ebay cracked down on the illegal books, but then again it's a bit of a rip off since you can download all of the books for free (Legally) on so many sites (Including MobileRead). But the books might not be as good formatted when you buy them that way.
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Oh, not necessarily.
I feel it's worth a few bucks to have the work done for me sometimes. Think of how long it'd take you to download 8k individual files. That's time consuming, and I'd certainly plop down a fiver for something that saved me that much time, especially if they were quality files. So much of the Gutenberg stuff is littered with formatting errors, typos and bad
speeling.
Heck, I bought the entire Wizard of Oz collection from MobiReference in the Kobo store in spite of knowing I could get them all for free... but the $1.89 - 30% for my coupon was well worth having them all in one clean file, chronologically ordered, virtually typo/spelling error-free because they have good proofreaders, and I did not have to download 15 separate books. I feel like my time's worth a bit of money, and I'm perfectly happy to pay a reasonable but small fee for a better copy of something I could get for free.
Some e-editions have better introductions, footnotes, commentary, etc... which, especially if you need it for academic purposes, might well be worth a few bucks to you.