Oprah Winfrey is relaunching her book club, this time with the focus on various classic works which will mostly be in the public domain. Anil Dash sees an opportunity for producers of e-book readers to expand their market and provide a dramatic demonstration of the advantages of limits on copyright.

I'm not sure that Oprah's audience is ready for the e-book. After all, it's not as if techies are all that keen on e-books, and I have a sense that even those techies who are keen customers of sites like Fictionwise mostly read their downloads on PDAs rather than dedicated e-book readers.

Still, it'd be tremendous to see someone make this idea work.