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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
But - look at what they are charging for these ebooks: $17.99 for one volume of Ambrose Bierce! ( http://www.amazon.com/Ambrose-Bierce...libraryofamerA)
Other volumes are priced $15 - $20/each - for individual volumes of a multi-part edition.
How much are you willing to pay for proofread editions of ebooks? Are clean editions of PD authors worth $20? $2? |
Yeah, given that Dover Press was able to profitably produce proofread (and in many cases fully annotated and illustrated) paperback books of PD classics (some not so classic and very niche, such as a book of US Civil War poetry) for $1, $2, and (more rarely) $3 (with the VERY occasional $5, I think), there is no excuse for such prices. ("The Devil's Dictionary" was a $1 product, BTW, and the Dover edition is indeed sitting on my shelf)