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Originally Posted by Calenorn
... why there are so many self-published public domain ebooks offered for free at the bug retailers' web sites? What benefit is there to an independent vendor when they "sell" books for free?
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I think it is several things. First of course as they are PD they don't cost the publisher anything to get hold of either. Or if they do it's very little I would imagine. So they keep their costs down. And of course some are posted at sites like Amazon by individuals I imagine as well. If they can get hold of a PD book from Gutenberg and put their own cover on it and resell it then they can make some $$ either on that book or on other PD books.