A lot of the books people praise are classics that have fallen into the public domain.<\/p>\n
I find it odd that no one — that I can find, at least — has ever set up a shop to print these classic books in classic style, on good, thick paper and perhaps in leather-bound hardcover.<\/p>\n
How to Win Friends and Influence People<\/a>, for example, is seemingly in the public domain. (Although they have “revised” the editions so that they can sell something copyrighted.) Why is it a trashy-looking paperback? Why not make it look like a classic<\/a>? And, of course, set the pages in classic style<\/a>, too, though perhaps with a slightly-refined font so that it’s a little easier on the eyes.<\/p>\n While you’d certainly incur some decent costs to do this, you could also look at it as taking free books<\/a>, printing them nicely, and selling them for $40-60 apiece. I’m positive that I’m far from the only one who would think this was insanely cool and buy a bunch of them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lot of the books people praise are classics that have fallen into the public domain. I find it odd that no one — that I can find, at least — has ever set up a shop to print these … Continue reading
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![classic style<\/a>, too, though perhaps with a slightly-refined font so that it’s a little easier on the eyes.<\/p>\nWhile you’d certainly incur some decent costs to do this, you could also look at it as taking free books<\/a>, printing them nicely, and selling them for $40-60 apiece. I’m positive that I’m far from the only one who would think this was insanely cool and buy a bunch of them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lot of the books people praise are classics that have fallen into the public domain. I find it odd that no one — that I can find, at least — has ever set up a shop to print these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/daydalus.net\/img\/2009-07-21\/walden.jpg\"){kind=link}