keith said:
>   What I am try to say I amazon is selling PG texts
>   PG should get something out of it.

when you call them "p.g. texts", you create
an implicit conveyance that p.g. owns them,
and then extrapolate from that to jump to
the conclusion p.g. should be compensated.

but project gutenberg doesn't own those texts.

i'm sorry, but it's true.

even the sweat-of-the-brow _improvements_
which p.g. volunteers made to those e-texts
do _not_ entitle p.g. to any legal recompense.

again, i'm sorry, but it's true.

good thing, too, or p.g. volunteers would
likely have to pay internet archive and/or
google for using their scan-sets and o.c.r.,
and everyone would have to be paying the
libraries who shelved the books for decades.

-bowerbird