Sigh... I quite plainly said in my original post
(which bowerbird didn't bother to include) that the link was sent to
me by a submitter, which I reposted to gutvol-d. I'm well aware that
Amazon and others are harvesting from PG and reselling.
oh my goodness, where have you been,
al? this sure ain't news.
and newby wonders if it's
"ethical". spare me the deliberations.
here's the thing:
project gutenberg could have set itself up as
a publisher with amazon, and
sold its e-books for whatever it
wants to charge, but project gutenberg
decided not to do that.
you could've also dictated that every page of
every one of the books
was available under amazon's "look inside this book"
functionality.
but again, you decided not to go that route.
was that
a good decision? heck no, it was a _stupid_ decision...
but
that's the decision that project gutenberg made.
so live with it, and
live with the consequences...
and tell your contributors that _they_
need to live with it too...
heck, jim even came here _begging_ you to
make things better...
he even did the work for you, and mounted the
solution himself.
but his efforts were ignored.
you might wanna
read this recent article from time magazine:
>
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/printout/0,29239,2032304_2032746_2032903,00.html
the
takeaway sentence is this:
> It turns out that there is
something that can compete with free: easy.
of course, _free_and_easy_
tops everything. but you opted out of that.
and now you want to
whine.
-bowerbird