Book People Archive

Re: Press Release: 2 Months To 1/3 Million eBooks

Has this been released to the news media, or is still in draft form?
There are some odd sentence constructions in some of the text.

I won't comment on most of the content of the release at this point,
but I did see one bit that might be a red flag:

> Project Gutenberg and The World eBook Library are an
> example of the 501 (c) (3) corporations that operate
> on a non-profit basis to improve the world.

Are both of these actually 501(c)(3)s?  I know that the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is,
but I can't find any record for the World eBook Library
in the IRS's charity database.  (http://apps.irs.gov/app/pub78)
Maybe it's been added since the end of March (the last update
for the online database), but a quick web search doesn't
turn up a mention of that status on the WEBL's own site either.

(The reason this may matter is that Americans can make tax-deductible
  donations to 501(c)(3) groups, but not to most other organizations,
  including many other types of nonprofits.   A 501(c)(6), for example,
  is a nonprofit business association, but it's not a tax-deductible
  charity.  And if an organization that isn't actually a tax-deductible
  charity sponsors a release, even mistakenly, that implies that it is,
  this could lead to trouble down the line...)

John