Comment by earthboundkid

Lots of bizarre defenses of PG here. Look at it this way: every single person you meet has heard the phrase “Wikipedia” and probably all but the least curious have used it. How many have heard of Project Gutenberg? And why not? Are public domain books unpopular? (No, schools assign tons of public domain books in English class.) Okay, so what’s going on? Answer: Project Gutenberg has decided that making the books readable is not their job. Well okay whatever, it’s their project, but the result is a total failure to be what it could and should be: a peer to Wikipedia and a household name.