Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading

E-Reader makers, take note. This is a cool feature that should be built in or at least able to be used with an API to get content onto the Kindle/etc. Or even a "send to Kindle" email address that can accept URLs too.

I wonder if this would have a positive or negative effect on profits.

On the one hand, they'd be adding a massive amount of free content to a platform where they make money because people pay to consume content.

On the other hand, it might actually increase sales simply because I'd spend more time using it, which would presumably result in more book purchases too.

(Also Kindle store is already full of $0 public domain stuff, so they already don't seem too bothered by that possibility.)

Huh didn't know that, guess I never assummed they would bother with it, I'd think about a published work in kindle like a product page in amazon therefore doesn't make sense to have 0$ items

Are they an amazon offer or do third parties take the time to set that up?