Not to stir up an old pot but for those who are not use to bowerbird please realize that these are wild fantasies of his and you&#39;ll never see such an application materalize.  So now worry about the PG trademark or anything else he is spewing.  Heck, I&#39;m still waiting for his version of DP that he was going to build that was SOOOO much better.<div>
<br></div><div><div>Joseph R. Gruber<br><a href="mailto:joseph.gruber@gmail.com">joseph.gruber@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.josephgruber.com">http://www.josephgruber.com</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:50 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Bowerbird@aol.com">Bowerbird@aol.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<font face="arial,helvetica"><font color="#000000" face="Lucida Grande" lang="0" size="3"><div class="im">michael said:<br>
&gt;    but somehow misinterpreted what the point is <br>
&gt;    about taking out the PG trademark which is <br></div>
&gt;    totally unnecessary unless HE is now commercial.<br>
<br>
i might charge a fee for my reader-program,<br>
just to demonstrate that it has value to people,<br>
but it won&#39;t be a very substantial price if i do...<br>
and i&#39;d probably offer a free counterpart too,<br>
to reap the reward that would come from that.<br>
<br>
my main point would be to push the envelope<br>
on the functionality a viewer-app should give,<br>
and to demonstrate benefits of keep-it-simple.<br>
<br>
and very few of the iphone e-book viewer-apps<br>
have desktop counterparts, at least at present,<br>
so that&#39;s another missing-link that i&#39;d provide...<br>
<br>
but the major capability i see missing at this point<br>
-- in terms of the project gutenberg e-texts --<br>
is an ability to download en masse with one click.<br>
lots of copies keeps stuff safe, plus it also guards<br>
against corporations restoring artificial scarcity...<br>
<br>
and yeah, all of the books will also be &quot;in the clear&quot;,<br>
regularized in regard to their zen markup language,<br>
on my website, as yet another version in cyberspace.<br>
<br>
most of the other jokers doing this put the text in<br>
a database, whereas my books are totally exposed,<br>
with an easy-to-grok u.r.l. file-naming convention,<br>
so other programmers can grab all of them at will...<br>
i&#39;ll probably echo them on my s3 (amazon!) account.<br>
<br>
the main reason i eliminated the p.g. boilerplate<br>
is because it&#39;s so ugly, and it just gets in the way.<br>
<br>
-bowerbird<br>
<br>
p.s.   if i do charge a fee for my iphone apps, i&#39;ll<br>
set aside a portion of the proceeds, not for p.g.<br>
per se, but for health insurance for you, michael.<br>
i think you deserve that for the role you&#39;ve played.<br>
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