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There are places online where stories are provided for free by the authors (such as fictionpress.com), hopefully in exchange for constructive feedback from their readers, or places like smashwords.com where many of the books are free, inexpensive or even allow the consumer to set a fair price. Both are excellent models, and I have read many books from both sites. True, you will have to wade through lots of very poor writing and poorly-categorized teen angst to get to the gems, but since you wish to forgo the editorial process of the large publishers, that is simply a fact of the matter -- the gems are there to be found.
Rather than trying to justify misappropriation of all the books any author has ever written, why not support the authors (and even those publishers) that make use of such consumer-friendly models?
The Bandit
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