I disagree. Perhaps the covers are bland, but the typesetting and editing is usually pretty solid; and in many cases, you’re dealing with texts that would otherwise only be available as photoset reprints of Victorian editions. These aren’t yer classics-for-a-quid.

Perhaps the free market argument is this: without the Liberty Fund subsidising these texts, one would likely need to rely on university presses, whose pricing for scholarly volumes, especially in hard cover, exploits a de facto monopoly on supply. One also presumes that the bland uniformity of LF volumes helps with inventory levels.

I find Marxist Org fun and useful.

Since we are talking online books, I have read Burke and Carlyle, would anyone recommend a reasonably non-judgemental History of the French Revolution that would be available free online. I tried to search Gutenberg, remembering seeing a translated French work, but couldn’t find it. Just a name ok, 19th century ok. Or should I look for original material, Marat is archived at Marxists.

Eric Foner also makes the list. Appears that a number of lefties have snuck in under the Liberty-dar.

It is totally cool.