There is a precedent for the argument that giving the book away for free doesn't count as the lowest sale price (it isn't being sold).
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<div>The example I found is Cory Doctorow (who is famous for offering all his books for free download):</div>
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<div>For the Win (as a Kindle edition):</div>
<div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/For-the-Win-ebook/dp/B003VTZSK4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&amp;qid=1291504446&amp;sr=8-3">http://www.amazon.com/For-the-Win-ebook/dp/B003VTZSK4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&amp;qid=1291504446&amp;sr=8-3</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/For-the-Win-ebook/dp/B003VTZSK4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&amp;qid=1291504446&amp;sr=8-3"></a>For the Win (as a free download from Cory's website):</div>
<div><a href="http://craphound.com/ftw/download/">http://craphound.com/ftw/download/</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://craphound.com/ftw/download/"></a>Note, the Kindle version is $9.99</div>
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<div>So, I think PG could get away with selling any of our work for $.99 a copy.</div>
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<div>Though, I agree with you in your other post about the quality not really being there for a lot of it. &nbsp;Maybe we should make a volunteer effort to post the "Top 100" PG works to Amazon ...</div>
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<p>On Dec 3, 2010, <strong>Marcello Perathoner</strong> &lt;marcello@perathoner.de&gt; wrote:</p>
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<blockquote class="email_quote" style="border-left: 2px solid #267fdb; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 1.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 12/03/2010 01:30 PM, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:<br /><br />&gt; 3 - I also think we should have (we as in PG) "published" everything to Amazon<br />&gt; et al as soon as it became obviously this new-fangled ebook reader fad was gonna<br />&gt; stick around!<br /><br /> From preliminary research it figures that:<br /><br /> - You cannot offer free Kindle books (yet).<br /> - Minimum price would be $0.99 - $2.99 (depending on size).<br /> - We would get only 35% royalty (you are not allowed to sell<br /> PD stuff under the 70% royalty option).<br /><br />furthermore:<br /><br />"... you must adjust the List Price as required to ensure that the List <br />Price, plus 15% (the statutory Luxembourg VAT rate) for sales to UK <br />customers, does not exceed the lowest of: (a) the lowest suggested <br />retail price or equivalent price for any digital or physical edition of <br />the Digital Book; (b) the lowest price at which you list or offer any <br />digital or physical edition of the Digital Book on any website or other <br />sales channel; and (c) any maximum List Price we provide from time to <br />time in the Program Policies."<br /><br />---- <br /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=393" target="_blank">http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?externalID=393</a><br /><br /><br />This has the ridiculous consequence that everybody can sell stuff from <br />PG on Amazon except PG. We would have to match the price we 'sell' the <br />book on gutenberg.org and at the same time maintain a minimum price of <br />$0.99.<br /><br /><br /><br />-- <br />Marcello Perathoner<br /><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:webmaster@gutenberg.org" target="_blank">webmaster@gutenberg.org</a><br /></blockquote>
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