[KarlInOhio]

Amazon hasn't publicly disclosed if it will one day include public domain titles.

They do already. I downloaded on my iPod's Kindle program some of the earlier Sherlock Holmes stories that have passed into public domain.

[GeronL]

Gutenburg Project anyone?

[TomGuy]

Sony ebook store

http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/

[iowamark]

Amazon's content can be read only on the Kindle and an iPhone or iPod Touch, but nothing else. The Barnes & Noble titles, however, can be read on RIM's BlackBerry smartphones or the iPhone and iPod Touch, but cannot be read using a Sony e-book reader or the Kindle. It's possible this closed system may drive away some interested consumers who want the freedom of reading their purchased content on any device.

We should, if at all possible, shun the closed proprietary systems in favor of public domain books. It goes without saying that all of the great literature and knowledge of Western Civilization is public domain.

[a fool in paradise]

What is the “Public Domain” that Sony speaks of? Together with Time-Warner-Turner, Disney-ABC, et al they have seen that American works will NEVER EVER AGAIN go into the public domain.

[SunkenCiv]

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