VolumeOne Replies... (Score 1)

Folks, we're getting a great distance afield here. As someone mentioned, the "Can't read aloud" permission applies to mechanical voice-synthesized readers. You can (and should!) read "Alice" and any other excellent literature to your kids. Our founder is very close to the Project Gutenberg people, and we're grateful that they gave us the original text file. What VolumeOne did with the text, however, was to re-typeset it with original editorial and typographic expression, converting the raw text into a new work, even though the output looks distinctly similar to the original printed edition. Our typographers spent WEEKS getting this right, with a very fragile copy of an 1860's reissue (from Chicago's Newberry Library) as a guide. This is very different than just making the raw text available, as you could imagine. It attempts to recreate the look and feel of the original, but translates it into a new medium. We are very happy that the VolumeOne electronic and book-on-demand editions of "Alice" are so popular. PLEASE read them to your kids. Just don't use them for a commercial purpose without permission.