Thread: Kindle Wish List $5 credit ????
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Old 08-22-2019, 08:18 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by tch65721 View Post
I ordered... One Summer: America, 1927 Kindle Edition by Bill Bryson - $1.99
and somehow got it for free. Huh. I'm baffled. Maybe it was this promo... or whatever it is.
Just a guess. It might be among the books in the public domain now because it was copyright prior to 1964 and the owner of the copyright did not, as was true of a huge number of such peopl, renew the copyright. There is a--"flood" may be overstating it--a large number that have appeared in the public domain recently. I'm sure that there's a lot of stuff about this in the "News" subforum, and I know that there is (elsewhere) on the Internet.

Amazon, as you may know, "sells" for free a large number of out-of-copyright books. For the most part, at least, they show up, in the thumbnail images, in plain "covers" and in plain "printing" of the titles.

A credit probably is irrelevant to getting these free from Amazon.
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