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And you would have concerns why? Or, to put it another way, what publishers/individual uploaders don't cause you concern about legitimacy? In whom do you have faith? And why do you have faith? Don't you risk being a "hapless victim"?
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Most of the time, I
don't have concerns. I just don't care all that much. But through this thread (and similar past discussions ), I have faith that HarryT doesn't change words willy-nilly. But at the same time, I can't ever be a hapless victim because I really don't give a damn if I get "fooled" occasionally.
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Oh, so price is a guarantee of legitimacy? Does that work for current books too?
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Of course not. But if you're not willing to pay a thing for it, you have no reasonable expectation of perfection. None whatsoever. If perfection and accuracy are important to you, buy a print copy with which you feel secure.
We need to move this conversation along. Nobody is arguing that public domain ebooks aren't easier to be altered and propagated than their print counterparts. I think everybody is even in agreement that they'd rather it didn't happen. The question is: what do you propose can be done about it -- short of repealing public domain and having copyright enforced in perpetuity (at which time the all important "free"-ness would be off the table)?
Or is this simply a "we don't like it" thread and nothing more?