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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
How do you know exactly what the publishers do? Either kind.
What I know is unless there is a demand, big business is not going to waste their time and money.
On the small publishers, you don't have a clue if they got an electronic copy or scanned it themselves.
You are assuming that a person is a fake unless they are employed by a big company.
I mean all publishers.
Now seriously, your best bet is read the one star reviews.
What do you consider a fake publisher? Those are not fake books. I do not appreciate you calling the volunteers here fakes. People spend many hours getting these books ready for public consumption.
On the big publishers, except for Scholastic and Harcourt, there is NO money in public domain. Do you have $600 per book to check for errors? That is the minimum it would cost any publisher. Yes, big business watches costs or they wouldn't be in business.
Time and money are the reasons they don't do it.
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I think sun surfer's point is reasonable. There's a lot of public domain chaff sold on Amazon, where people just upload a copy and slap on a price. He also seems willing to pay for a quality edition; the difficulty is finding them. And there are several publishers who presumably make money from public domain books; they add copyright content as well as providing a clean edition. I also don't see where he referred to any uploaders here as fake. Please don't misrepresent what another poster says.
The reviews at Amazon are useless in this context, since Amazon has a regrettable tendency to conflate the reviews of all editions of a title.
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Do not ever tell a poster NOT to join a discussion or ask why they joined the discussion.
If you don't like an opinion, fine. Put the person on ignore or report the post.
Do not call out that poster because that violates the forum guidelines.
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sun surfer did not tell you not to join the discussion. Again, don't misrepresent another poster. He is entitled to disagree with your comments. Moreover, it is a violation of forum guidelines to accuse another poster of being in violation. Please don't do it. I can only refer you to your own advice; if you have an issue with a post or a poster, please report it.