Nearly everything there comes from direct experiences that Marcello and I have had, augmented by Googling for guidance, warnings, ideas, and best
practices. Come on Greg, this excuse doesn't fly. People on this forum and others have been explaining for years how one can directly download books from the PG website to their Kindle devices. This was all sorted out back in 2008. See: http://www.amazon.com/Million-Kindle-books-available-now/forum/FxBVKST06PWP9 B/Tx15UAKRX5252A/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B000FI73MA also trying searching http://www.mobileread.com on "Kindle" Rather, let's call this what is it: "The Power that Be" at PG not only think they can but that they should be "picking winners and losers" for customers in the ebook reader marketplace. This isn't a case of the tail wagging the dog. Rather this is a case of the flea on the tail of the dog trying to wag the dog. It just doesn't work. Customers will buy what the customer wants to buy. Maybe they choose to buy a Kindle because they are Prime members and the Kindle gives them a particularly convenient way to order pancake batter with free shipping. So what? If you want them to read PG books you need to offer them attractive well formatting books which actually work on *their* device not *your* device. Marcello might be successful in trying to influence what PG volunteer transcribers buy for the reader device -- except that DP already has much more interesting and intelligent forums on the subject, as do other web sites including mobilread.com -- and even IF Marcello were successful all that would do would be to further ensure that PG books are not going to work on the full range of devices out there in the marketplace. On the contrary we ought to be encouraging developers both at PG and at DP to buy the full range of weird, wonderful -- and each variously "broken" in its own particularly maahvalous way -- ebook readers, in order that PG understands what it takes to make books that actually work for customers -- and so, maybe, dear god just maybe, PG might decide to step up to the bat someday and fix some of their books which are horrible broken.