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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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Since most, if it all of them are in the public domain, I see the main reason for picking any of them up is because they have a superior modern translation still in copyright.
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Not all of them are in the public domain. Most of them probably are. But there are a lot of titles which are not.
I did a spot-check of the titles that appeared on just the first couple of pages when following LovesMacs'/Koland's (by the way, thanks LoveMacs for making the post!) Amazon link. Here are five titles that I quickly found:
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, by Philip Dray.
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Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems, Humor, and Art, by New Yorker magazine.
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By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions, by Richard Cohen.
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 17), by Edward J. Larson.
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The Catholic Church: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 5). (It seems that all of the Modern Library "Chronicles Series" books are currently in copyright.)
So, don't ignore LoveMac's post thinking that all of the titles are old!
The fact of the newness of many of the Modern Library titles, at least those that following the link brings up, causes me to believe this to be a better sale than I would have thought at first glance--the price of $2.99 for books in copyright seems like a better deal than $2.99 for books in the public domain (notwithstanding the added value of the introduction, explanatory notes, etc. of public domain books in the Modern Library edition, that LovesMacs pointed out, and the superior modern translation that bgalbrecht pointed out).