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Old 02-12-2013, 09:03 AM   #1
atchoum
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Is it legal to resell free content in USA ?

Hi all,

this is my first message. I'm a small e-publisher based on DP since one year. I'm really bored with the competition on Amazon Kindle.

My work is based on dp, but i'm buying old books, and recreate all content. I never cut and past from free source, by this way. I'n sure to sell a good book. If someone cut and past from internet, if it's miss a page, no matter (in fact he don"t know what he sell). Shame.


In my case, you probably noticed than my english is bad. So a famous website in french, put content online, it's prohibited to resell it.

And of course on amazon, you can buy all the website. For example, after the creation of one ebook ( 3weeks, 7 days by weeks, 10 hours by day). I sell my work 2 dollars, others people noticed that it's was a good ebook (besteller during a month).

A lot of new version come on Amazon, alls new versions have the same mistakes than the internet source. i've send to amazon, sorry but alls versions are based on this source, alls have the same mistakes and the content can't be resselled.

Nice reply thank you for the notice and nothing else (the fact is Amazon take 70%)


My problem is the following. If i spend 2 weeks to publish an ebook, if i sell my ebook 2 dollars. (cheap price for a lot of work). Some others guys cut and past the full books, for the same or for less than 1 dollar. and it's so easy, to resell the free work made by someone else for free,

but i think that is illegal practice. In my country, you can't do a work for free and doing competition with an other company which give pay his salaries.


So this is my first message, and after a year of hard work. that's enough. Copyright is not God. If Amazon don't change, i'm start think for a lawsuit in USA.

Any clues are welcome.
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