We want young readers to be able to see themselves in stories but literature can also show us that people we don't think are much like us at all turn out to have some of the same heart, blood and dreams. Neither does Don Quixote, The Scarlet Letter, Macbeth or Their Eyes Were Watching God. Gatsby's Jazz Age Long Island may not look like a microcosm of contemporary America. Two new editions are about to come out and who knows what kind of projects - a Gatsby rom-com? Gatsby joins The Avengers? - might now get a green light, which recalls the imperishably eloquent last passage of the book: "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us." In the public domain, Gatsby may now become even more familiar. Copyright laws are created under the guise of helping authors when in reality it seems they are designed for big companies to continue to profit off of someone else’s hard work for nearly 100 years after publication.Arts & Life Party Like It's 1925 On Public Domain Day (Gatsby And Dalloway Are In) So ebookstores can still milk it for all it’s worth until the year 2021, despite the fact Francis Scott Fitzgerald died way back in 1940. Update: As some commenters below have pointed out, this book is in fact not in the public domain in the United States because it was published two years after 1923 where the cutoff changes from 70 years to 95 years. Then it shot up to $9.99 and has remained there ever since. The same thing happened to George Martin’s A Game of Thrones, which used to sell for $6.99 in ebook form until HBO started airing the Game of Thrones TV series. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that everyone is trying to cash in on the success of the movie, but I still don’t like it. What I like about Feedbooks is their ebooks are nicely formatted, so there’s no reason to go spend $5-$10 elsewhere. None of those ebookstores want you to know that you can simply go to and download The Great Gatsby for free in ePub, Mobi (for Kindle), and PDF formats.
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