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GtrsRGr8 · 05-06-2015, 01:19 AM

GA Russell made a post on the "Less than $3.00 Non-Fiction" thread a little while ago of the free ebook Great Astronomers, by R.S. Ball.

The publisher of that ebook is a company called Kitrinos Publishers, which I had never heard of before. Soooooo, I decided to take a look at what else Kitrinos had listed at Amazon. What I found was that they have 49 other--50 total--ebooks marked down to $0.00. That's right, zip, zilch, zippo, nil, nada, goose egg.

Kitrinos appears to have a similar modus operandi to companies like Nisyros, Waxkeep, Krypos, Halcyon Press, and the Pergamum Collection (I have to wonder if these companies are not all owned by the same people). That is, they take books that are in the public domain, "clean them up," and republish them.

I think that these companies provide a real service to people who read ebooks. First, while you can get the text free from places like Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, of probably all of the books that they sell, that text can be of poor quality and, therefore, hard to read, etc. Furthermore it probably can't be cut-and-pasted, it's just images. These books by Kitrinos and their kin have text that can be copied and cut-and-pasted. All of you know how useful that is.

Second, these companies serve as kinds of gatekeepers. It would be a daunting task for a person to sift through all of the public domain books on many subjects, to find the good ones. These companies presumably pick out the better books on the respective subjects to clean up and reprint.

Anyway, here's a webpage that you can go to to find all of the Kitrinos freebies. They are sorted by price, low to high. Most, but not all of the ebooks, are nonfiction.

Happy hunting.

05-06-2015, 01:19 AM	#466
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	50 Kindle/mobi Ebooks from Kitrinos Publishers--FREE! GA Russell made a post on the "Less than $3.00 Non-Fiction" thread a little while ago of the free ebook Great Astronomers, by R.S. Ball. The publisher of that ebook is a company called Kitrinos Publishers, which I had never heard of before. Soooooo, I decided to take a look at what else Kitrinos had listed at Amazon. What I found was that they have 49 other--50 total--ebooks marked down to $0.00. That's right, zip, zilch, zippo, nil, nada, goose egg. Kitrinos appears to have a similar modus operandi to companies like Nisyros, Waxkeep, Krypos, Halcyon Press, and the Pergamum Collection (I have to wonder if these companies are not all owned by the same people). That is, they take books that are in the public domain, "clean them up," and republish them. I think that these companies provide a real service to people who read ebooks. First, while you can get the text free from places like Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, of probably all of the books that they sell, that text can be of poor quality and, therefore, hard to read, etc. Furthermore it probably can't be cut-and-pasted, it's just images. These books by Kitrinos and their kin have text that can be copied and cut-and-pasted. All of you know how useful that is. Second, these companies serve as kinds of gatekeepers. It would be a daunting task for a person to sift through all of the public domain books on many subjects, to find the good ones. These companies presumably pick out the better books on the respective subjects to clean up and reprint. Anyway, here's a webpage that you can go to to find all of the Kitrinos freebies. They are sorted by price, low to high. Most, but not all of the ebooks, are nonfiction. Happy hunting.