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 -----
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.
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