Most of the PRINTED public domain books I have seen in stores, are usually at the same price, of books that require royalty payments to authors.

I can hear the hand rubbing as each book transitions into the public domain, thereby allowing companies to make a higher profit, simply because they don’t have to pay author royalties.

That’s something that goes against the whole idea of Project Gutenberg, the original, volunteer based, free, pollution free, public domain, ebook repository, which started in 1971.

I guess it was only a matter of time before companies like Google, Amazon and others jumped on the bandwagon, once they figured out a way make profit from something that is, and should be free.

While Amazon and HP may sell the printed books for lower than “normal”, I figure they will be making a very very tidy profit for shareholders

profiting from public domain media is just plain wrong.