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Originally Posted by dodgyville
Amazon have some cheek! Making use of the copyleft movement when it suits them but doing everything they can to lock down large chunks of the public domain (see their attempted patent on "one click purchasing" and fairly locked down platform that is the kindle, charging too much money for editions of books long in the public domain (not the gutenberg stuff I know that's free)).
I hope they are contributing back to Project Gutenberg. I know companies are there to make profit, but there's the right way to do it, and the a**hole way to do it. Sadly, Amazon strikes as an example of the latter. Take take take, never give back.
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If you have a complaint, it is with the French company Mobipocket - these are their publications, just moved over to Amazon (who has since bought Mobipocket, but did not own them when these started appearing there). No doubt there was a licensing deal where they contributed to the digitization effort in return for rights to sell copies (since that is often how these "free" services are funded).
Send some of your heat this way .... the winter storms are moving back in (at least the power is back up; off for 8 hours yesterday and few here use anything but electric for heat and other utilities, although we are set with wood and camping supplies).