[WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

[David Carson]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Yeah, but my odds of getting a Kindle gratis from their benevolence are??
>
> It's a bit like applauding the Ritz Hotel for giving away free coffee with a
> $150 meal.

A Kindle is a physical object that costs money to produce. Hence they are
sold for money.

The early works of James Joyce are public domain content which can be
digitally duplicated infinitely for no significant cost. Hence they
are given away
for free, both by benevolent organizations such as Project Gutenberg, and by
for-profit corporations such as Amazon.

What point, exactly, are you trying to make?

Cheers,
David...