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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Almost all of them are probably in the PD here in the States, at least. That's not a criticism--the quality of them is likely to be much higher than you can get from any of the free book sites.
The one on the chaplain in the Korean War and on the Battle of the Bulge probably aren't in the PD, though. Not enough time has elapsed. However, there are ways for a book that isn't in the PD for time reasons to be granted a Creative Commons license or something so that it is like being in the PD, or almost so. Also, I suppose that the copyright owner could decide to relinquish his/her copyright for some reason.
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Written material originally published in the US between 1923 and 1963 which did not have their copyright renewed are now in the public domain. That's why you see a bunch of free or low cost SF short stories at Amazon, most of it is courtesy of a bunch of volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders who scanned them from magazines and posted them at Project Gutenberg.
Personally, I'm not sure why you think that ebooks at Amazon that are published by a PD ebook publisher is going to be better than what you can get here or at Project Gutenberg, although I will admit that the Kindle format books at PG are all mobi format, which is inferior to AZW3 and ePub.