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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
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.
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You know, I had forgotten about the requirement to renew the copyright. I have been under the impression that anything published in 1922 or before is fair game; anything published in 1923 or after is in copyright until ? .
Well, I did say "likely," and did not make a blanket statement. I should have said something to the effect of, "it is my impression that . . ." or something to that effect, because that is all that I have--an impression.