Several points before replying to individual notes. 4. Amazon and Sony and many others have apparently taken much of their start up position in eBooks out of Project Gutenberg and The World Public Library. I mention to them from time to time that approaches such as this seem intended to kill the goose laying the golden eggs from which such enterprises take an early start in their development. The responses I get seem to be on the order of: "That's exactly what we WANT to do, kill you off!" After all, someone who wants to make their living, so to speak, from selling gold, doesn't want there to still be a free source of gold to customers. Amazon and Sony, et. al., would prefer that once a start up has begun, to eliminate all competition-- including all that helped them get started. These people now want to be the "deBeers" of eBook transactions and thus to corner the market on such goods as are plentiful enough for everyone to have all they want. Are you not familiar with the fact that there have been enough mined diamonds for years for everyone, literally EVERYONE, to have plenty of them? But deBeers hoards them to artificial scarcity. This artificial scarcity is the founding block out of which the current eBook market is created. That is why copyright gets longer and longer and a name of "pirate" is given NOT to those who steal a public domain of millions of books, but to those I presume only steal a few books. Thanks!!! Michael S. Hart Founder Project Gutenberg Inventor of ebooks Recommended Books: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury: For The Right Brain Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand: For The Left Brain [or both] Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson: To Understand The Internet The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster: Lesson of Life. . .