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DeusExMe · 06-20-2008, 12:12 AM

I was under the impression that anyone could place a book for sale on Amazon. So I figured that works such as this one were the result of some user and not Amazon itself, sort of like the Amazon marketplace for traditional purchases.

Even so, I was further under the impression that Amazon or Sony or any of these sellers, simply downloaded from Project Gutenberg, formatted the file, uploaded to their site, set a price and began to sell.

These impressions were furthered since some of the books are not refined at all. It is as though they were downloaded and uploaded again with a new file extension and NO work was done on them. If they are not even formatting the text to be book-like in some cases it makes me wonder that they would take the time to get permission from the copyright holder...

Anyhow, thanks for the input.

06-20-2008, 12:12 AM	#4
DeusExMe Kingdom Agent Posts: 22 Karma: 24 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Springfield, VT Device: Amazon Kindle	I was under the impression that anyone could place a book for sale on Amazon. So I figured that works such as this one were the result of some user and not Amazon itself, sort of like the Amazon marketplace for traditional purchases. Even so, I was further under the impression that Amazon or Sony or any of these sellers, simply downloaded from Project Gutenberg, formatted the file, uploaded to their site, set a price and began to sell. These impressions were furthered since some of the books are not refined at all. It is as though they were downloaded and uploaded again with a new file extension and NO work was done on them. If they are not even formatting the text to be book-like in some cases it makes me wonder that they would take the time to get permission from the copyright holder... Anyhow, thanks for the input. Last edited by DeusExMe; 06-20-2008 at 12:14 AM.