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Old 01-24-2011, 03:54 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by darthreader13 View Post
I was looking into getting the "Tao Te Ching" and noticed that there are different copies at different prices. Any idea why this is?
Because it is an out of copyright work, and is published by many different publishers. Read the descriptions. Get the samples and check them out. You'll probably find that 90% of them are quick and dirty conversions of some public domain copy of the text, probably from Project Gutenberg.

The remaining 10% might be versions with extra info, a new translation, or perhaps a very well formatted version of the public domain text.

There seem to be about 50 different versions available on Amazon.
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