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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
DRM, generally. Your Project Gutenberg ebook is DRM-free. Amazon adds restrictions and charges you more money. So see, you're paying to be prevented from using public domain books in public domain ways -- isn't that a benefit? </snark>
If there's some kind of added material (commentary or whatever) that will be mentioned. Mostly, Amazon just sells you what you can get here on MR, on PG, on Feedbooks, on ManyBooks, etc., for free.
And no, they don't have better editing than MobileRead books (few if any do). Not many can beat Distributed Proofreading, either. Generally, Amazon (and everyone else who will gladly charge you money for free books) just grabs the free ones, strips off the "this book is free" section, slaps on their own cover, and of course DRM, and charges you money.
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You can sell books without DRM at Amazon. There are independent authors who do so and even a few mainstream authors. The Author or Publisher, whoever is responsible for selling the book, can choose to add the DRM or not.
The books sold at Amazon that are copied from here or Guttenburg are normally individuals who are making a quick dime off of something.