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Old 12-06-2010, 06:14 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by JeremyR View Post
What I find curious is that they apparently are selling scanned in copies of books that are out of copyright and should be in public domain.

I understand that that that particular printing of the book is under copyright, but why not offer the original (out of copyright) printing for free?

I know, because they are a business and want to make money. But it irks me that public domain books (basically) get sold for money. In this case, $9.99.

AFAIK, everything that was available free before (over a million PD books) is still available free.
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