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In The End, We'll Pay A High Price For This Free-For-All

Posted at 8:20AM Tuesday 26 Jan 2010

There was a story in the New York Times last week which revealed that more than half the "bestselling" e-books on Kindle, Amazon.com's e-reader, are available at no charge. And though some of these American titles are digital versions of out-of-copyright classics, such as Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, many are by new authors trying to make it in writing.

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