From a different thread:
they're looking for "sponsors", suggesting "an annual fee of $1000", or even all the way up to $350,000, which buys you a "thank you" from within the browser of the one million of their clients you've sponsored...
I don't know about their millions of clients but the PG website is now ranked top 3000 at alexa.com and serving ~250K pages to ~50K hosts a day. We have a Google page-rank of 8. To get that spammers would feed their mothers to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. We could put an ad space at the top of every page. I'm thinking of text-only ads, no distracting images. We could cycle ads like this: Did you know that you can help producing ebooks investing just ten minutes a day? www.pgdp.net Sponsor PG and get your web site mentioned here. See: www.gutenberg.org/fundraising/sponsoring We thank the Curl Up and Dye hair parlor for their kind gift of $1000. www.curl-up-and-dye.com Do we want to do this? And what rules should we put in place? Is selling ads compatible with the non-for-profit status? Anybody out there with an internet marketing background to figure out what we could "charge" for this ad space? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org