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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
I'm not sure where I stand on this one. If the creator of the work or his estate don't benefit from the sale of the work, then Amazon and B&N etc will. They seem to bring out copies of Jane Eyre for example every couple of years and just change the cover. I think I would rather that someone connected to the creator of the work benefited.
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They won't benefit unless they can add value. I paid 95 cents for a collection of all of Baum's Oz books. It was a convenient package, and had an interactive table of contents. I decided this was worth 95 cents. I could have downloaded the books from Project Gutenberg and not paid a thing. Or I could get a free copy from Amazon if I don't want what is offered by the book with extra features.
Jane Eyre is public domain as well, you can get a free copy, or you can pay a bit more to get some added features. I've read Dante's Inferno, and it had extensive footnotes explaining what the text is talking about. I could have gotten a free copy, but I wouldn't have understood nearly as much if I didn't have the notes. If I buy that, I'm paying for the notes.