Amazon Bans Publishing Public Domain Content

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing has updated its publishing rules and  banned the distribution of public domain content that is available to anyone. Here is more from the update:

Some types of content, such as public domain content, may be free to use by anyone, or may be licensed for use by more than one party. We will not accept content that is freely available on the web unless you are the copyright owner of that content.

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