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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I want to put the legal questions aside und try to approach it from a different angle: Kobo should not list such books for pay, at least not without stating it is in the public domain and available for free. Ultimately such scam damages the reputation of a platform. It should be in kobos interest to prevent its customers from such things. Customers will prefer places to buy, if they feel safe there. If I have to watch out for scam and fine printed legals, I will shop somewhere else.
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You do realize that a lot of the Big 5 publisher sell a large number of public domain books, some of them for $10 or more.
Penguin Classics, in particular. The complaint here is not that these publishers are selling PD ebooks for money, is that they are taking ebooks created by people here, meant for free downloads, and selling them.