PG volunteer efforts end up being re-sold all over the place, in ebooks and in paper books, including lots sold by "just in time" printers. Do the volunteers not realize this is "part of the plan?" A "PG" book is not a "PG" book unless it still says "PG" in it, if it doesn't then it is free game. If it does still say "PG" in it then the for-pay re-publisher owes PG a royalty for the use of the PG name. Or at least PG asserts as much. When a risen-to-the-public-domain work gets copied -- even if considerable "donkey work" goes into cleaning up that copy either by a volunteer, or by a paid human being, or by ever-better OCR software, that doesn't stop the copy from remaining a risen-to-the-public-domain work, and thank god for that. Otherwise every publisher can just put a new cover on a old book and claim renewed copyright status for another 80 years. Oh wait, I guess some do just that. IMHO the real complaint ought to be when risen-to-the-public-domain works get resold under DRM thus prohibiting what IMHO ought to continue to be legally allowed copying. Not a lawyer to argue the status of reselling risen works under DRM, but, at least morally I think the volunteers DO have a reasonable moral complaint if not a legal one when their efforts get resold under DRM. Don't buy "risen" books under DRM, and do not support companies that "lock down" their devices such that in practice you can only read books that are under DRM. Who "owns" risen-to-the-public-domain books? The public does. The public has already paid for those books, by paying economic "rent" on those books to the publisher for all those years that the book remained under copyright. The intent of copyright was always to allow *limited time* monopoly rights to authors so that they could be compensated for their artistic efforts, in exchange for the public's free use of those books for the rest of forever. The intent was never that any author or publisher could claim ownership "forever." [But don't try to tell that to Mickey Mouse.] Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. For legal advice hire a lawyer.