Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
indeed, in the sense that they offer customers the option of a hard-copy printing of an e-text, i think they're providing a service.
Those people know they can take a PG text, format it, print a hardcopy and sell it. That's done in good faith. Nobody has any problem with that. They also know that formatting a text does not give them any copyright whatsoever. But still they stick a copyright notice on a public domain text. That's done in bad faith. They didn't even proof-read the text, or they would have noticed those errors.
we are failing in our mission by not ensuring that google has a no-pages-restricted entity in its book-search for each and every public-domain book that they have.
You are contradicting yourself. Google is a commercial enterprise just like those two-bit publishers. Why do you require ethical behaviour from Google and not from those other publishers? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org