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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...You seem to be assuming all PD ebooks that cost money are necessarily of better quality than the free ones...
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Quality obviously varies a lot.
And I'm sure, HarryT will spend more time and expertise than most resellers of PD stuff.
But, when buying my stuff, I still hope for some consistency.
This hope gets shattered often enough, even within official series bought from Amazon, Kobo and the likes, often there's no structure at all.
But still I hope: If somebody gets paid for their effort, hopefully they deliver acceptable quality. Additionally, on Amazon I always can get my money back, no questions asked.
Stuff for free, on the other hand can be "hit and miss". I still can delete them, without any harm. But like I wrote: I hope for a higher hitrate with purchased stuff, so bad quality stuff doesn't cluster my library before I even will recognize it.
Typically, I buy a handful of books twice per week or so. Often enough I won't read them or even touch them for months. If I'd download from the wrong source, I might not see it for weeks and could have collected dozens of "bad ones" already...
And:
PD stuff probably is less than 10% of my library.
I buy lots of recent business related books.
Whenever some buzzwords such as "blue ocean" or "black swan" pop up, I buy the respective literature and speed-read them. Such titles you can't find in PD or for free anyway.