is it news to anyone here that some people sell p.g. e-texts? i should hope not. those people don't irritate me. 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. so in addition to recovering the costs of printing and binding and shipping and maintaining a business that deals with willing buyers, i think they deserve a little profit for providing that service... after all, they "own" that public-domain material just as much as you or i "own" it. i also don't even get mad if these people -- in protecting their business model -- restrict viewing the pages of their books within the google book-search system... no, i think the blame falls on _our_ shoulders, because as the people dedicated to providing full and free access to the public domain, 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. and i firmly believe we should remedy that situation, soon... -bowerbird