
Several points before replying to individual notes. 1. World Public Library is NOT a commercial venue. It is a 501 (c) (4) non-profit corporation. The major, perhaps only, difference from 501 (c) (3) is that they are membership driven, for a maximum of $8.95 a year for unlimited permanent downloading the 500,000 or so eBooks they have, and lower rates from schools and other groups, and even free access to an assortment of people who can't afford it. 2. Most of us are missing the point about this huge discussion, which is that we should be addressing an eBook system that brings eBooks to cellphones. I note the bowerbird had finally addressed this in a most recent message, but somehow misinterpreted what the point is about taking out the PG trademark which is totally unneccessary unless HE is now commerical. 3. Cellphones, USB flash drives and terabyte drives are the wave of the future. . .one really hardly has to even OWN a computer any longer to fill these up. More later, Michael