You are SOOO far behind the times, all of this is old, not news.
Uh, Michael, it's the SECRECY that's a big angle here, beyond the usual mischief. Why should proposed copyright treaties be treated like national security secrets? Just Google around a bit: http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=secret+copyright+treaty No small number of news organizations see...news. As for disrupting this list, keep in mind that out of the blue, without my attacking anyone, Bowerbird launched a strike on me and wants to do this every Thanksgiving. Great for holiday cheer, huh? I defended myself. You sided with PG's resident troll, the clown who has been kicked off his share of lists. A little Orwellian. Or is this list instead the Planet of the Trolls? The Apes--no, I mean the Trolls--set the tone? Bizarre. Meanwhile apologies to the Apes. They strike me as far, far more civil than Bowerbird. I'm happy to write up PG's better side, but I gotta say, Michael, you're doing a pretty efficient job of alienating people without my tolerance of your, er, eccentricities. Some potential friends of PG may put themselves in my place and not reach out to you. Horror of horrors, a few of those you alienate might even have money. The tone of the PG volunteer list just might be one reason why PG is unfortunately so bleepin' cash-strapped. All this craziness might also scare away potential participants with first-rate ideas for PG. Which counts most--Bowerbird's rants or your mission to digitize books in the public domain? As for ePub, I've already said that it's fine great for PG to offer many formats and let 'em slug at out. You can do that until the end of time, and in fact I'd prefer this. But ePub is the one that Sony and B&N are gearing up for, and the one that even Amazon might in time offer as a Kindle-format alternative. This took years to achieve. It's unfortunate that rather than helping the standards movement, you've just been sitting on the sidelines. You could still have worked toward standards while offering many formats. OK, enough. Now get back to the stuff I like--PG's mission. David TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home http://www.teleread.org