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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Not sure why you expected anything different -- especially since they almost certainly want to prevent users from, for example, downloading e-books scanned as part of the Google Book project and loading them on a Sony or Kindle e-book device.
Besides, public domain doesn't mean the title has to be sold for $0.00 or go without DRM. It means that "anyone can publish it." So if I want to put together all the Shakespeare plays in one e-book, add a table of contents, slap some DRM on it and charge $5, that's perfectly legit.
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I expect different because I won't live in a world where I just shrug at every abuse of power or flagrant money-grubbing attempt to sell the dead. These are public domain works meant to be freely shared to enrich our culture, all culture, not to be locked up and gated by some company so they can make a quick buck (or as part of some feeble promotional deal). These books are available from several places in several different formats all without DRM and keeping to the promise of the public domain. These companies are testing the waters, seeing how gullible their 'market' can be and how much they can get away with.
You may gladly accept the bad behaviour of rampant capitalism.
You may defend the right to stripmine our culture and turn the words of the dead into another money-making scheme that is encumbered by ridiculous anti-knowledge DRM.
I do not and I will not.