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Looks like Lemur Books is selling public domain Sherlock Holmes books. I'm guessing the value add is supposed to be nice format/layout on mobile devices but I c
by commentzorro 12y ago
Looks like Lemur Books is selling public domain Sherlock Holmes books. I'm guessing the value add is supposed to be nice format/layout on mobile devices but I can't be sure.
If Lemur were clearly saying they were selling the layout and formatting of public domain books I'd side with the blog. However, if they were implying that they were selling the e-books as content w/o clearly stating these were public domain then I'd side with Google. I hate it when people build a sales campaign around tricking people, even if legal.
What was the pitch in the play store?
- JohnTHaller 12y agoThere is no requirement, legal or otherwise, to identify a physical book you sell in a bookstore as having content available in the public domain. Why would there be on an ebook?
- commentzorro 12y agoThe first paragraph stated what I found that the blog didn't make clear to me. i.e. what was he selling and why was his account suspended. Items the blog didn't mention. The second paragraph gave my opinion on the blog post (on which side I fall) and my reason for my opinion. Specifically point out that either way I didn't think they did anything illegal ... but possibly (not necessarily) immoral. The third paragraph asks anyone knows the details about how the sales pitch was worded in the play store.
- estnon 12y agoObviously the post is not about if books are PD or not. Google has to completely delete all books and refund the customers, or pay publisher's royalty. It has no right to take all revenue. That is it. edit: btw, play store, conan doyle books right now: https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Arthur+Conan+Doyle https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Arthur+Conan+D...