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enlightenment

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7. Not very lazy,

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 6, 2015, 12:42 AM

Feb 2015

if they took the time to rewrap the text, bold the chapter titles, and strip the headers and footers.

In fact, I'd say they were pretty ambitious to do all that for a couple of bucks.

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Amazon charges Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg e-books (after stealing them) [View all] ND-Dem Feb 2015 OP

aka.. 3rd party does something shady, amazon pulls the books when notified, but waah, amazon bad! X_Digger Feb 2015 #1

Yup, AMAZON MUST BE EVIL FOR ANYTHING ANY THIRD PARTY DOES!!!!!! MohRokTah Feb 2015 #2

If Gutenberg wants them offered for free on amazon then all gutenberg has to do CBGLuthier Feb 2015 #3

Not very lazy, enlightenment Feb 2015 #7

how can they steal them ? the books on gutenberg are part of the public domain JI7 Feb 2015 #4

And you can charge for the dowloads, too. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #6

they steal the volunteer labor that produced them when they charge for the volunteer-produced books. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #12

Hmmm. Dr. Strange Feb 2015 #5

hmm. they did when i tried them a minute ago. strange. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #13

The last couple days you have certainly made your thoughts and opinion of amazon clearly dissentient Feb 2015 #8

Well, Sherman A1 Feb 2015 #10

I love ohheckyeah Feb 2015 #9

Thanks for posting! Sherman A1 Feb 2015 #11