Thread: The Atlantic: Ebooks Are an Abomination
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Old 09-17-2021, 09:03 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
About a month ago I bought the 7 Chronicles of Narnia books in one eBook for $4.99. There are thousands of "out of print" eBooks available for free. There a thousands of eBooks for sale cheaply that would have never been reprinted on paper because it would have too expensive for a limited market. And, in opposition to the article, a lot of the books I've bought cheaply are non-fiction written in the late 1800s or early 1900s. These simply would not have been available at a cost I could afford if not for eReaders.
Not out of print. Out of copyright. There are thousands of out of print books that are completely unavailable as ebooks too. In my country the Chronicles of Narnia are already public domain and are available free online since C.S Lewis died 50+ years ago.

My rant was about the big publishers mainly and was also about the quality of what you get. Not just the price! I don't feel that the ebook should have glaring typos or other issues that don't exist in the paper copy when I'm paying the same or more.
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