>oh, and yes, some books from p.g. are being sold (or given away)
>on amazon.  we have discussed this before.  and if p.g. wanted to,
>p.g. could offer those books _itself_ and knock out the knock-offs.
>but nobody here has stepped up to do that.  y'all just wanna bitch.
>and until you get up off your asses and _do_something_, nothing
>will change.

Some years ago I looked at this possibility but decided against wanting to work a mosh-up between Amazon’s legalese and PG’s legalese.  Not saying that it can’t be don’t, shouldn’t be done, or hasn’t been done – search Amazon ebooks for “Project Gutenberg”

What I decided to do instead was to set up my own website to support Kindles – since at that time PG refused to support Kindles.  That site is freekindlebooks.org , and is still doing about 150,000 free downloads a month, in spite of actively trying to pass users back to PG now that PG offers reasonable support of Kindles.  Also not counting all the people downloading books using “Magic Catalog.”

So, its not that “nobody did it.” Its just that nobody did it exactly like you suggest it could done.  I would think most PG volunteers, including yours truly, are actually not very interested in helping along the Amazon’s DRM restrictions and Amazon’s DRM restrictions website – even if we *are* fans of the Kindle reader hardware itself. Personally I am willing to buy books in copyright with DRM.  Not willing to help support DRM on out-of-copyright books.