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You can get Google Public Domain books for free through BN. In fact, if you use the BN ebook search tool, either from your computer or from your mobile device (I was using my Blackberry), those free books will come up in your search, identified as Google Public Domain titles. From there you can order them and download them to your computer or mobile device. Yes, they have non-free versions of the more popular ones, but you don't have to buy those. I got the free version of Oliver Twist a few days ago (haven't read any Dickens in ages), plus a couple of other titles that have been out of print for decades.
As it turns out, there's a software bug that prevents me from downloading these Google books (but only those) to my Blackberry wirelessly. There's no problem with the computer version of the eReader, though, so the workaround is to download them to the computer eReader then load them onto the Blackberry via USB cable. Not a big deal, and BN is working on a fix.
So, although they do give you free DRMed public domain books when you open an eReader account (Dracula, Pride and Prejudice, and a few others, plus one non-public domain book, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary), you are not forced by BN to order only the DRM versions.
Todd
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