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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's irritating, I know (and I really do know!) when some sleazebag takes the work that you've put hundred of hours of effort into, and resells it to make a quick profit, but unfortunately that's the nature of the public domain. Best thing to do, as has been said, is to add a little introduction to the book. Doesn't need to be more than a paragraph. That will be your own work, and be protected by copyright.
Doesn't stop someone from stripping it out and selling the rest of the book, of course, but at least it means that they have to do a little work.
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Thanks, Harry
As it happens in one of the ebook I put in the MR library the person who uploaded it to Kobo stripped out about half of the material I put in, and in another the uploader left in all of the material - three or four pages worth. Kobo's response (if I understand them correctly) was that it's a Public Domain ebook, so they can do what they like. I'm at least as angry at Kobo as I am at the people who did it.