jim, i know what you did to help people put p.g. on their kindles, and
you did a fantastic job helping people pull off that job for themselves.

that's not what i was talking about, though...  i was talking about
an effort by p.g. to establish the p.g. catalog throughout amazon.
to create print-on-demand versions, kindle-books, the whole bag,
all under the p.g. brand.  but nobody wanted to do that.  ok, fine...

that meant that privateers out there took p.g. books and set 'em up.
i'm fine with that too...  at least the option is open to readers, right?

but every once in a while here, someone moans about the privateers.

so when they do, i remind them that they could have done it _first_,
but actively chose not to do so, so maybe they should be quiet now.
they ceded the ground to the privateers...  so it was their own fault.

so, do you see the difference, jim?  you made it so kindle owners
can get p.g. e-books from p.g., for free.  that's a wonderful thing.

but i was talking about an unrealized plan for amazon customers
to get p.g. books (p-books and e-books) from _amazon_, at a cost,
where p.g. would be the beneficiary of those customer purchases...

(perhaps p.g. could have offered the e-books for free, but we never
got to the stage of putting the plan in play, to make that decision.)

so now privateers are benefiting from the work of p.g. volunteers...

again, i'm fine with that, and everyone should be fine with it too,
because they could have done things differently, but they didn't...

-bowerbird