Mulligan, on the free legal sites, either the copyright has expired, or the author has already been compensated in some way and agrees to have the book offered for e-book reading. This isn't about ripping the author off. We are not trying to do that.
When you borrow a book from the library, you aren't paying the author either.
And actually, even when you buy an e-book, you don't own it forever. After a certain number of uses, albeit many, many uses, it comes off your e-reader.
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