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Old 03-09-2013, 07:53 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by DrNefario View Post
If you are reselling an ebook created by volunteers on Project Gutenberg then you are competing against the free version that is available at PG. That doesn't seem like much of an advantage, to me.

Is there a good business case for paying people to create ebooks from PD sources that don't use the PG version? and maybe aren't available at PG? Probably not.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that even some of the publishers of PD books get their raw data from PG.
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