It means that Kindle and Amazon are obtaining at least some of their books from PG. This particular Oliver Twist is PG #730 (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/730), originally prepared by Peggy Gaugy and Leigh Little in November, 1996. It was checked over and generally cleaned up, and an HTML version produced, October 10, 2008 (by me, as it happens).
From the prologue wording quoted below, Kindle/Amazon have the 1996 version, not the 2008 version.
Al ----- Original Message ----- From: don kretz To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:54 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Real Competition to PG Here's a list of "best-sellers". (It turns out that Amazon appears to use the same list for Kindle and Amazon itself, but the point is the same.) They're almost exclusively free books, and largely our bread and butter. If I download, say, "Oliver Twist" (#38.) The prologue states: "This etext was created by Peggy Gaugy. Edition 11 editing by Leigh Little." I bet somebody here can tell me what that means. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d