Using an Ipod Touch, I downloaded some public domain books from the Kindle application. I was officially charged a transaction fee of "$0.00" for each one. 1) The Kindle version of the book, "Tom Swift and his Submarine" appears to have been hit by the TXT-80 virus. The lines of text wrap around in an illegible fashion just as they do with the TXT-80 format ones from PG. Fascinatingly, I just downloaded the epub format directly from PG, and it looks great! 2) I also took time to examine an ebook I'd downloaded **months ago* called, "Tales of the Fish Patrol". Knowing Chinese people and being a fan of the sea, I was really into the book by the end of Chapter One. Then I was hit with: ____________ End of this sample Kindle book. Enjoyed the sample Buy now or See details for this book in the Kindle Store ____________ The violations of taste of this project hit me like a brick. If Amazon were to have charged me $0.10 for the cost of bandwidth, I would not have blinked. But to take a public domain book, and set it up as something you're supposed to pay to see the second half, and not making it exhaustively clear to the downloader what you are getting, is major uncool. After you've got through the teaser, they provide a link telling you they want $0.85 for the full version. BUT WAIT-- The free prelude to this ebook that I had on my Kindle, AFAICS, isn't on Amazon anymore! It doesn't show up in the first 25 listings. A new attempt to download "Tales of the Fish Patrol" has all the chapters. So, the system worked! Either the marketplace or the Amazon administrators appear to have taken action to make this work less prominent. So, the "true" ebook has an *ASIN:* B000JQV2WU. The $0.85 target you're supposed to buy has an *ASIN:* B002N0V0XG and is by * Publisher:* Bunny Books, Ink. (August 26, 2009) Any insights here? -- Greg M. Johnson http://pterandon.blogspot.com