On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
I might argue that using the work "competition" is not accurate.
Here is an excerpt from: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_Mission_Statement_...
The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple:
To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away.
And I recall reading further elaboration before, on the idea that PG should help to encourage anyone, anywhere to give away more texts. So if Amazon has become just one more of the many redistributors of PG texts, I do not think I would call it competition.
"Success" is the word that comes to mind. This is not very different from e-texts being used to reprint works that would otherwise not be economically viable to put back on the shelves. -- John Vandenberg