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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
The Routledge freebies are also available at Kobo. |
I'm going to go out on a limb here.
It might be that the Routledge books can be offered by anyone, as long as they are not sold by anyone and the text is not altered, for example. Although they are Open Access, it seems like there would _have_ to be _some_ restrictions, even if those restrictions are very minimal. They're not like books that have gone out of copyright, in that regard, where a person can do _anything_ that he or she wants to do with the books. Perhaps all OA titles hold some kind of Creative Commons license (
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ (drill down to the "Three Licenses" section)).
I hope that the preceding comments will spur someone with greater and more accurate knowledge to chime in.