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Originally Posted by Isles8008
All I know is that I am ready to buy an Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, or Penguin Classics ebook at a reasonable price.
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I'm guessing that you live in the US. When on your next Canadian vacation, I believe you can legally download everything by Hemingway.
The great majority of the Penguin Classics titles are public domain, even in the US. Sometimes the translation used in a Penguin version may be copyrighted, in which case I likely will read the older one.
Kerouac novels are available as eBooks from many US public libraries.
I don't see the problem with the pricing here. People who can't afford these books have free alternatives, and people who can afford them obviously can afford them. Publishers do make money off the backlist -- and that helps support the publication, mostly at a loss, of large numbers of new books.