Hi, Have you read this interview (<http://www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=6&iid=2920>) with science-fiction author Charles Stross? He would not like disappearing into obscurity, so just to be sure he keeps getting published, he is contemplating donating the rights to one of his books to Project Gutenberg once it has stopped making him money: "95% of authors go out of print for good within a couple of years of their death. I don't want to see my literary estate die with me. So I'm currently considering ways of ensuring that when there's no longer any income to be made from them, my copyrights will go somewhere like Project Gutenberg where they can be made available for free. Hopefully this is a long time off, though ..." -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl