michael said:

Actually, I seem to have noticed many of the PG eBooks, or something suspiciously similar, on most eReaders. No?

yes. but _not_ the .epubs obtained from apple's store. to the best of my knowledge, correct me if i'm wrong. because the .epub files obtained from apple's store will only run on apple's machinery. so the promise that .epub would be _interoperable_ and _open_ was false, because it depended upon the assumption that it would never be wrapped in d.r.m., an assumption that has been known to be unwarranted ever since microsoft wrapped the original o.e.b. in d.r.m. and let it be known that the corporate publisher dinosaurs -- the same entities who brought you the .epub format -- are the entities who have also continued to insist on d.r.m., so this is _not_ some kind of "accident" that "just happened". they knew what they were doing, and rothman was a tool... so... those p.g. books on other platforms were produced _independently,_ because -- thanks to your great foresight, michael -- p.g. plain text _is_ "open and interoperable"... -bowerbird