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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
I'm not opposed to at least some kind of return policy. I had to help my mother return a Kindle book recently that she was strong-armed into buying, because Amazon search on a Kindle seems to bend over backwards to hide free books from the results. She wanted to grab Moby Dick to read for a reader's group, and despite the fact that the book is in Public Domain and has several free copies available.
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Well, people should know Amazon isn't the only place and they want to sell books. Gutenberg.org was founded in 1972 and has over 70,000 public domain by USA terms ebooks.
Amazon exists to sell stuff.
Some short stories where author is alive or died recently may be public domain in USA due to how magazines worked.
There are more likely to be free ebooks in copyright on other sellers, like Smashwords, such as first book of a series. It's difficult to do that on Amazon via ordinary KDP.
There are number of sites with public domain (varies by country) ebooks including this site.
If you can find an Author on Amazon via one of their books and go to "Author page" and then select "Price: low to high", but otherwise Amazon searches are poisoned by sponsored results and if you search other than default useless "featured" many results vanish. Also results seem to have semi-random unrelated things.
It's getting harder to find things on Amazon and Google or Duck Duck Go. They seem to be determined to return as many results as possible.