The sites that are most successful at republishing PG books, feedbooks.com and manybooks.net are both using our plain text format instead of our HTML.
What feedbooks.com and manybooks.net republish is crap -- but I guess I'm not sure whether that supports Marcello's argument or mine. It certainly points out there must be *something* wrong with what PG is doing when feedbooks.com and manybooks.net choose to republish html, epub, and mobi file formats based on txt70 -- downloads that are most of the time clearly and obviously inferior to that PG offers directly from its own site -- and yet people continue to download from feedbooks.com and manybooks.net! Certainly feedbooks.com and manybooks.net do a better job of "advertising" their offerings -- and make them somewhat easier to download, on average, to a large variety of different devices. Another advantage of feedbooks.com and manybooks.net is that they remove the unnecessarily unsightly and scary -- to the naïve user -- PG legalize from the front of their downloads.