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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
B&N has a line of public domain "classics" to which they have added original material, such as explanatory notes and forewards by academics, that they publish in trade and mass market paperback editions. They are certainly entitled to copyright such works, and it's not out of the realm of reality to have DRM placed upon them if they change them into ebooks.
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Exactly. In that instance, the new original material is copyrighted, even though the rest of the book is public domain. Any protection would apply to the new material only.
Of course, the article doesn't mention this, so I have no idea whether or not there is any "new material" in the public domain books that they are talking about.