Yes, without the Gutenberg license stuff inside, it should be a PD book, logicslly. I assume that its perfectly legal to get a book from them, strip all Gutenberg info from it, and add a "Thank you" in the beginning, stating that the formatting of the new version is based on the work that they did before. Credit where credit is due. They do it themselves, by stating which version of the text they have used.
Some of their html and epub-versions that I've seen are quite ok, and just need some fixes. Same goes for some Mobileread books. Maybe I will format some books that I'll be reading, starting from the Mobileread or Gutenberg epub, if I think that I can do better.
Edit: I really should watch out for typos more when using my tablet to post.
Last edited by Katsunami; 01-20-2012 at 11:22 PM.
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