Thread: Is the end near for Mobipocket?
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Old 09-08-2009, 10:08 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by tsgreer View Post
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
It would seem that some small private publishers are cleaning the texts of the public domain books, correcting errors from the transcriptions, fixing the quotes, etc. that the others (Amazon included) leave in the e-book. Then they have the gall to price these corrected PD e-books reasonably. How dare they.

An example would be the Father Brown Omnibus from Timeless Classics.
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