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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
People would be reading Jane Austen or Dickens whether or not they were under copyright. We know this because they still read them before e-books, when you had to pay for a paper copy. It might have been cheaper than a new book, but not tremendously so. I can walk into Barnes and Noble, and find a paper copy of a PD book for perhaps $6.
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A lot of people pay for ebook copies of these PD classics probably because they don't realize they can get them for free or they assume there must be some value in the copyrighted additional material commissioned by the publisher.