Relative to the purchasing options, it's free insofar as the marginal cost is zero. Yes, technically someone - whether a donor or taxpayers - had to buy the bo

Relative to the purchasing options, it's free insofar as the marginal cost is zero. Yes, technically someone - whether a donor or taxpayers - had to buy the book, construct the building, fund ongoing operations, and so on. But any of your tax money that you might have paid for this is a sunk cost - there's no additional user fee you pay in order to take out Seven Habits (or any other book).