I might argue that using the work "competition" is not accurate. Here is an excerpt from: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_Mission_Statement_...
The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple:
To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
This mission is, as much as possible, to encourage all those who are interested in making eBooks and helping to give them away.
And I recall reading further elaboration before, on the idea that PG should help to encourage anyone, anywhere to give away more texts. So if Amazon has become just one more of the many redistributors of PG texts, I do not think I would call it competition. --Andrew On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, James Adcock wrote:
If anyone want to "check out the competition" Amazon has just released "Kindle for the PC"