My reasons are 3 and 4 below. I'm blind so I'm very interested in electronic books. I read them almost exclusively. However, as much as I like PG, I get tired of only reading pre-1923 books so I look elsewhere. I am very greatful to the people who are getting 1950's science fiction cleared. I assume this falls under rule 6? I'm greatful, those books aren't generally available except from PG. I don't like DRM anyway, but especially since it usually locks out screen readers from reading the text. Often PDf files are encrypted or have passwords preventing copying text. MS Reader is generally not accessible at all. Even if reading aloud is turned on, you don't get a choice of what voice you want and are stuck with horrible software speech. Even the new DAISY format for the blind has restrictions but I can convert it to plain text so I'm happy. Post this to slashdot if you want. At 04:07 PM 3/10/2006, you wrote:
3. Lack of content: Books they are interested in aren't available in electronic format
4. Distribution model: They don't like the DRM scheme their favorite publisher offers, or are otherwise unhappy with current offerings.