michael said:
>   but somehow misinterpreted what the point is
>   about taking out the PG trademark which is
>   totally unnecessary unless HE is now commercial.

i might charge a fee for my reader-program,
just to demonstrate that it has value to people,
but it won't be a very substantial price if i do...
and i'd probably offer a free counterpart too,
to reap the reward that would come from that.

my main point would be to push the envelope
on the functionality a viewer-app should give,
and to demonstrate benefits of keep-it-simple.

and very few of the iphone e-book viewer-apps
have desktop counterparts, at least at present,
so that's another missing-link that i'd provide...

but the major capability i see missing at this point
-- in terms of the project gutenberg e-texts --
is an ability to download en masse with one click.
lots of copies keeps stuff safe, plus it also guards
against corporations restoring artificial scarcity...

and yeah, all of the books will also be "in the clear",
regularized in regard to their zen markup language,
on my website, as yet another version in cyberspace.

most of the other jokers doing this put the text in
a database, whereas my books are totally exposed,
with an easy-to-grok u.r.l. file-naming convention,
so other programmers can grab all of them at will...
i'll probably echo them on my s3 (amazon!) account.

the main reason i eliminated the p.g. boilerplate
is because it's so ugly, and it just gets in the way.

-bowerbird

p.s.  if i do charge a fee for my iphone apps, i'll
set aside a portion of the proceeds, not for p.g.
per se, but for health insurance for you, michael.
i think you deserve that for the role you've played.



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