No distribution costs, little advertising and Houseman is in the public domain. I know readers like me, loving readers. Will be appreciative and probably buy more of your rip off scumbag public domain crapola , minimum effort adaptions.
Just because ' that's the way he presented it' doesn't mean the publisher can't adapt for modern technology. The words are still there. Make them easier to find .It seems to me, you will agree, that it's an easy process and costs little. Particularly for an e - book.