I did some checking too. The conclusion I provisionally have arrived at <br>is that there are relatively few beneficiaries from our expectations for <br>an increasingly
elegant HTML version of each project which also is<br>one of the major drags on the post-processing stage and a major<br>contributor in the increasing residency period of projects on DP.<br><br>It appears to me that the only people who enjoy the full pleasure <br>
of our finest work are a.) those who read the whole thing online<br>at PG, and b) those who personally download the HTML version<br>and install it locally so they can read it with a device (probably a<br>PC full-width screen (including laptops and similar.) Which would<br>
be - what - 10% or less?<br><br>In fact, it appears that secondary distributors treat the removal<br>of all or part of the HTML as part of their value-add.<br><br>Don<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:52 PM, James Adcock <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jimad@msn.com">jimad@msn.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">&gt;</span>Does anyone know of
any epublisher other than PG that *does* distribute the html we provide?<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Not sure exactly what you are asking but Apple for example takes
the PG html, strips out the PG legalize and acknowledgment of the volunteers,
converts it to EPUB with DRM, and redistributes it “free” [where “Free”
in this case means being only able to get then book in DRM form and only being
able to get it directly from the Steve Jobs iPad monopoly]  One knows they
are not working from the txt versions of the files because the Apple redistributions
contains chars and formatting found only in the HTML versions. 
FreeKindleBooks redistributes in HTML form converted to MOBI and retaining all
the PG legalize and requirements. Mobileread has volunteers which take the HTML
usually heavily reformat it, strip it, and republish in MOBI and EPUB formats
while cackling about how much better their versions are!  Many other sites
appear to “down-convert” to a least-common-denominator ASCII format
before “up-converting” back to HTML, MOBI, EPUB, etc. Presumably
they are working from an ASCII version of an old DVD distribution –
getting “working” EPUB and MOBI from the HTML formats tends to be “non-trivial”,
not to mention that some sites republish in say two dozen different formats.</span></p>

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