On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
Michael's dream is and will happen anyway. It's just a question of *who* wants to host the party. If PG wants to be a party of just "academics" well then go for it. I don't think many of us "non-academics" who are in this simply *because we love reading books and want to share that love with other people* will hang around long.
I don't know at all what you're arguing against here. One master format is most important for those what to share books with other people, because academics will happily read HTML or PDF files on their 20" screens. It's all the people with their Kindles and cell phones and other random junk that need other formats.
It's just too easy to occupy some other website where more can happen faster and with more fun and with fewer "academics" clogging the pipes.
Then why don't you go there? I work with PG because I have reason to believe my work will still be around after a while, and because people can reuse PG's material without stressing so much about copyright. Ease of reuse would be a nice feature there. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.