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There are laws about unfair competition, but they do not apply in this case. Any company or person is free to make use of volunteer labour. Wikipedia has a reasonable summary of unfair competition. |
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Anyway free PD books are only really competing with other free PD books. Of course on some level a copy of Jane Eyre is competing with the latest Stephen King. But that's on a level of what to do with my leisure time. I could read the Jane Eyre or I could read the Stephen King or I could watch a movie, take a walk outside. Hey maybe walking should be illegal since it's unfair competition to paid-for entertainment! So if you accept that PD is only competing with PD then because it's PD everyone has the same "raw material" i.e. the text - available which makes it a more fair market than many others. Well less barriers to entry anyhow. |
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Latepaul, Crich70,
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If you are reselling an ebook created by volunteers on Project Gutenberg then you are competing against the free version that is available at PG. That doesn't seem like much of an advantage, to me.
Is there a good business case for paying people to create ebooks from PD sources that don't use the PG version? and maybe aren't available at PG? Probably not. |
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Isn't that what working as an "intern" is? That's unpaid work to get work experience, as I understand at.
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The use of public domain texts is not. The text of a book in the public domain is free (libre, not gratis) for anyone to use. The *format* of a book--paperback, hardcover, epub, or mobi--may be not-free (not gratis), but the text is available to be used by anyone who has it. That's the way copyright law works. A person can cut and copy a book in the public domain, and anyone can use that text--including a big-name publisher that wants to re-issue a paper book in a new size. Quote:
If your version is *better* than the Gutenberg version, then you have to convince the customers of that. There's nothing illegal about selling a cheaper version that's lower quality, and there's nothing illegal about buying it. If your book is better than the Gutenberg version because it has better fonts, some pictures, an introduction with the history of the book, and annotations explaining the details--you can probably sell it for more. But some people don't care about all that, and they will buy the $1 version for their Kindles, or go to Gutenberg and download it for free (gratis). Anyone who doesn't want to compete with free public domain books, or cheap public domain books, is welcome to write their own books instead. The contents of those books will be protected by copyright law, and other people will not be allowed to sell them at a lower price. Nor at all, if the author doesn't want to allow other people to sell them. |
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Can you add a bit more detail? Just a name and that the man made a comment is kinda vague.
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