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Originally Posted by eschwartz
So then... why would you spend money on PD books?...
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I buy books that are in the public domain all the time.
While the content may be available at no cost, someone pays to keep Project Gutenberg and the MobileRead library available. Why should I spend someone else's resources when I have enough of my own?
I also want something of good quality. The few public domain books I have sampled were very poor (these were from a retailer, not Project Gutenberg or MobileRead). Usually, there are multiple copies to choose from and I feel it to be a waste of my time to get a sample of all of them in search of something suitable when I have found a publisher I like and trust to provide me with what I want.
I've also bought multiple copies of the same book. One book I was waiting impatiently for and didn't bother to check the format when it became available. So, of course I end up with a PDF file. But why tolerate something I don't have to? The publisher's site had it in epub, so in less than a minute I had what I wanted.
Another time, a new author had their book for sale, but only directly from the publisher's site. I bought it, loved it thoroughly. Quite some time passed and it was available on the Kobo site, so for the ease and convenience of syncing, I bought it again.
If someone else finds my behavior to be odd, mad, or the very height of insanity, I don't particularly care.