Bowerbird, I would assume this would mean that they're pushing forward into ebooks. Ebooks that are under copyright. Looks like a good thing though. The more people who have the ability to read ebooks which are under copyright, the more people who can read all ebooks (read: PG ebooks). Project Gutenberg continues pushing forward, amassing more material as said material falls into the public domain. Future books won't need as much effort from us then, since all we'll need to do then is provide server space (they'll already be in electronic format). In the end, PG goes from being an organization converting physical books to electronics ones into an organization that ensures the duration of Copyright remains a sane amount (not that it's sane currently, but you get the picture). How is this a bad thing? -brandon Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
last week, amazon bought booksurge, a p.o.d. company.
yesterday, amazon bought mobipocket, a viewer-app. (franklin, who owned a lot of mobipocket stock, is going to make a couple million bucks from the deal.)
do you people here realize what all this means?
no, of course you don't.
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