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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
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.
Happy hunting.
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Not quite 'owned by the same people' because I see duplicated books, but perhaps someone is selling a publishing kit ?
I don't think they do much work besides adding a clickable TOC and some Gutenberg books now have that.
The Grateful Dead by Gordon Hall Gerould
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39408
I think all Gutenberg books are text rather than images and they are proof read whereas Kitrinos books are DRM'd so making copy/paste harder than it need be.
Here's the simple freebies only list for Kitrinos (works with all Kindle stores)
http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...isher=Kitrinos