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Originally Posted by WillAdams
For books, the standard has always been that the text itself is either public domain or copyright, and the response to that has been to add forewords, introductions and so forth when doing new editions.
If you stripped the formatting and non-essential markup and remade the ebook you should be in the clear (but this not legal advice, and I am not your lawyer, just a layman's understanding of copyright).
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This would be why the "plain" version of the novelization of
Metropolis is free, but the one that doesn't have formatting that makes your eyes bleed is $3.