If scholars need e-books with standard page numbers they can always use PDFs and DjVus from the Internet Archive. Anything in PG is likely to be there too. This discussion reminds me of an article in Wired magazine many years ago. Decisions by U.S. courts are in the public domain. There was a publisher that printed these up as reference books. Someone tried to make a database of this information, and included pages numbers from the printed books as part of the data because judges needed that information. The book publisher sued on the grounds that the page numbers were copyrighted, even if none of the actual content of the books could be. This is how I remember it, anyway. James Simmons