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Originally Posted by H-P
You're right about "that's another matter". English is not my native langage so IF.
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English is my only language so I can't criticize anyone writing in it as a non-native speaker. However
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Also like i wrote. If a website write in the mention, you're free to kill your mother". Private mentions are not above the law. The value for the reader let me laught  , all this content is alredy available for free on Amazon and co...The value is for the bank account of this kind of publisher.
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I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that something is not the case just because a website writes it down? That's true. But in this case it's not the fact that Project Gutenberg say that their stuff is PD that makes it PD - it actually is PD.
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Open a commerce, the day that you will see, next to the door a new shop, which break alls prices, because all products are done for free by volunteers. Tell me: is it a fair competion? Is it legal in US ?
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I'm not in the US but as far as I know yes. It's not illegal to sell things that were created by volunteers. Charities do it all the time. They don't pose a serious threat to commercial businesses because volunteer labour is unpredictable and it's hard to e.g. impose quality control etc.
Anyway free PD books are only really competing with other free PD books. Of course on some level a copy of Jane Eyre is competing with the latest Stephen King. But that's on a level of what to do with my leisure time. I could read the Jane Eyre or I could read the Stephen King or I could watch a movie, take a walk outside. Hey maybe walking should be illegal since it's unfair competition to paid-for entertainment!
So if you accept that PD is only competing with PD then because it's PD everyone has the same "raw material" i.e. the text - available which makes it a more fair market than many others. Well less barriers to entry anyhow.