Buying Books vs. Downloading Online

caemin
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:08:37 +0000

If you won’t need specific page numbers for anything, just download them off of Project Gutenberg. If you do, then just buy them as cheaply as you can.

And no, ebook editions aren’t necessarily cheaper than the real thing but in cases like Communist Manifesto and Frankenstein when the books are out of copyright, print editions are paying for mostly the costs associated with maintaining the material (translations, forwards, notations, research, etc.) and the actual costs of the book so they are very cheap compared to more modern books (regardless of format).