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Originally Posted by sircastor
This is a simple legal technicality, but the DMCA does not specify the nature of the material that is being protected,
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The Digital Millennium
Copyright Act only applies to copyrighted material.
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Furthermore, being in the public domain, I don't think B&N has any responsibility to ensure your ability to copy/move/distribute the material (as with GPL.) If that's the case, then why get up in arms about it? They have as much right as we do to mess around with it...
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They don't have a requirement to provide editable, transferable, convertable versions. The receivers also don't have any obligation to accept restrictions on their use of the PD material.
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Originally Posted by kali yuga
The original publication date and copyrights for the new material are all on the copyright page. That's pretty much all that's required afaik.
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If that copyright page says something like,
"Copyright © 2007 by [Barnes & Noble]. All rights reserved.
No part of this ebook may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the copyright owner."
...it may be fraudulent. Claiming "no part of this book may be reproduced" when the vast majority of it is in the public domain is lying to the customers, attempting to convince them they have to ask or pay for rights they freely have by law.