Well, this was such a welcome shock(*) to me right now that you could literally knock me over with a feather, so I figure I'll pass it along as something resembling good news.

* - with more and more completely moral things I do every day actually being made illegal by legislation I am beginning to develop what can only be considered a healthy digust of the world at large and a tendency to think that given a chance, companies will immediately attempt to draft legislation, sue, file patents, and otherwise steal everything in existance, and a few things that don't, strictly speaking, exist at all. I'm beginning to mentally associate the phrase "for profit" with "bottomless greed".

Now I suppose the next step will be to find some places online that sell perfectly normal HTML versions of books at prices that reflect the lack of a quarter pound of paper and ink... or just perfectly normal HTML versions of books. I'm not having any of this proprietary reader format nonsense.

Baen Free Library