> For example, "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche on Amazon is $3.99 for the eBook, $17.99 Hardcover and $6.99 for paperback. Nietzsche has been dead

> For example, "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche on Amazon is $3.99 for the eBook, $17.99 Hardcover and $6.99 for paperback. Nietzsche has been dead for 122 years, so why do I have to pay? No one currently alive had anything to do with helping Nietzsche produce his work. > Pirate Bay to the rescue, I downloaded the collected works of Friedrich Nietzsche (72 books, essays and other works) for the total cost of FREE. How amazing is that? I'm not sure I could even do that by paying for it. You have a good point, but chose a bad example. For works that are public domain or otherwise out of copyright (at least, non-obscure ones), you have fairly good legal download options, starting with Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/779 https://archive.org/search.php?query=Nietzsche&and[]=creator%3A%22nietzsche%2C+friedrich+wilhelm%2C+1844-1900%22 https://archive.org/search.php?query=Nietzsche&and[]=creator... Within that set of public domain works, the most popular ones often have somewhat nicer (but still free) editions from places like Standard Ebooks, Feedbooks, and Manybooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Nietzsche https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Nietzsche https://www.feedbooks.com/search?protection=without_drm&query=Nietzsche&sort=top https://www.feedbooks.com/search?protection=without_drm&quer... https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Nietzsche https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Nietzsche