Unfortunately, the presentation of public-domain material can itself be copyrighted. The company that pulled Kindle’s plug on Animal Farm likely has copyrighted the formatting and other aspects of a particular presentation; Amazon cannot just “photocopy” their publication of the public-domain work and sell that without license or compensation.
Ineresting. since most fonts have been around for years, and as far as iI know aren’t copyrighted, how can this be? additionaly, as I posted earlier, I had severall hundred books on my Palm and they were all in courier.