Hi Shelley. If you find a members only book with a copyright before 1922,
tell the staff about it. Sometimes submitters put the wrong dates
in. Remember that bookshare requires the most recent copyright date. That
means that if a book was published in 1910 with an introduction copyright
1990, the 1990 date needs to be given. People forget sometimes. Also,
while the text written and published before 1922 is public domain, the
intro is not, thus making it a non-public domain book. I hope that's clear
enough.
You could try scanning and submitting the 1919 book to bookshare, but I
would suggest contacting PG instead. That way everyone will have access to
the book, not just the blind or those who stumble on bookshare. Also it
can go on DVD or CD-ROM so schools and libraries all over the world can
read it. To start, go to this site and read the FAQs on how to submit
books etc. They give very detailed instructions. Another option would be
to send it to the PG Distributed Proofreaders. They are at pgdp.net and I
encourage you to look, even though you have to register to do much proofing
and you need vision to compare the page image with the scanned text. They
will scan and proofread the book and frankly will probably do a better job
than you because it is a full army of proofers rather than one
person. Each person proofs a page at a time rather than an entire book so
it gets done in hours instead of weeks. Below are links to the relevant
sites. Look at all of these and I think that you will see that PG really
is the best place for pre-1922 books. Cindy, this applies to your book
also that you asked about.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ for FAQs on how to submit
http://copy.pglaf.org/ for the form and login site to get copyright clearance
http://pgdp.net/ for PG Distributed Proofreaders
Hey speaking of books published before 1922, I have seen several books on the site, one that I found today was
The Story of My Life By Helen Keller published in 1910 but the site lists it as a members only book.
I have a book scanned from 1919 don't ask how I came across this gem, but am not sure how to proceed, as it is in the public domain.
