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Originally Posted by tsgreer
I just got an email that mentioned that Amazon DTP (their self-publisher wing) will no longer accept public domain titles. Here is the text of the email:
Subject: Alert from Amazon DTP
Dear Publisher,
We’re working on a policy and procedure change to fix a customer experience problem caused by multiple copies of public domain titles being uploaded by a multitude of publishers. For an example of this problem, do a search on “Pride and Prejudice” in the Kindle Store. The current situation is very confusing for customers as it makes it difficult to decide which “Pride and Prejudice” to choose. As a result, at this time we are not accepting additional public domain titles through DTP.
Thank you
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That would seem to be for the best. Those 'self'published works are making an absolute mess of Goodreads.. new 'editions' are constantly automatically added by/to the system there, and they'll probably stay there forever, considering you can't click the links to see if it's still being sold (as they don't have ISBNs).
While it hardly seems reasonable to allow the 'big' publishers to publish PD titles in the Kindle store while others won't be able to any more, (which sort of makes me wonder) it will definitely clean up the store a bit.