The Father of the eBook Is Dead  Michael Hart invented the
ebook. The idea that gave the Kindle a reason to exist, has
helped float the iPad to its peak, and is currently killing
bookstores. But before all that, he just wanted books to be
$0.00.  There's a good chance you've used Project Gutenberg, one
of the internet's great treasures. Among its 37,000 free texts,
available in a multitude of languages, all for free, are some of
humankind's greatest written works. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Moby
Dick, Jane Eyre, the Declaration of Independence—all for free.
It's an incredible, if somewhat dated looking resource.  It
wonder what Hart, who died Tuesday at 64, would think of his
creation. Ebooks are now an enormously lucrative
commodity—enough to put expensive pieces of plastic into eager
hands. But that seems to run a bit contrary to Project
Gutenberg's ethos, that words should be available to anyone for
no charge. Of course, Gutenberg's collection is all public
domain stuff, and a lot of things flying into Kindles i