"Michael" == Michael S Hart <hart@pglaf.org> writes:
Michael> Has anyone checked out the http://KindleLibrary.org. Michael> There are hundreds of thousand of eBooks for kindle Michael> owners there. Michael> We are interested in getting some feedback on the site. It seems to be a collection of pdf, kindle users have to pass through amazon to get a conversion into kindle format. The 255531 english books seem to be in large majority US government publications (Publisher: United States Department of the Treasury, Publisher: Department of Defense, etc) There are 347 books in french, distributed between ebooksgratuits.com and canadian government publications Searching by publisher is possible, it contains 10911 from Project Gutenberg Consortia Center. Do they pay any royalty? (the service is reserved to subscribers, so it is a commercial site). They also have 13619 from blackmask: more from PG. They seem just an attempt to make money from users unaware of the existence of available free books. I will never give them the 8.90$ they want. Carlo PS (added after composing the message) They seem to be from Hawaii, PO Box 22687, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 96823. This gave me a suspicion, and I found: John Guagliardo Organization: Project Gutenberg Consortia C Address 1: P.O. Box 22687