2009/1/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
It takes me a few dozen hours to scan the pages of a public domain work. I have a perfect right to expect payment for someone else to use it. That capitalism.
No. Under capitalism you have the right to expect what someone else is prepared to pay you. If that is zero then it is zero. Since under US law sweat of the brow does not give something copyright protection if your scans are publicly available it is rather hard to get people to pay anything for them.