[bksvol-discuss] Re: Public domain books (Was Google Books)
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:43:49 -0400
Hi Jim,
You are acting wisely in my opinion. There's no need to grab these
public domain books because they are freely available for download, and
for those who want to have some organization in their libraries, and
who are willing to pay for somebody to organize your material, the
Samizdat site fills the bill more than adequately.
http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/
Friends, you can get Richard Seltzer's entire collection of British
Literature, some three thousand books on three CD's for $30.00. That
ends up being about $0.01 per book. He has a wealth of other CD's and
DVD collections by author by genre by geographic region and so on. The
small collections are priced at $15.00 I think, something like that.
He will, if you contact him, even place his stuff on an SD card or a CF
card if you send him the media. So, no, there's no need to spend good
money on Bookshare's part.
The idea of having a special request form for a Public Domain book
makes sense. I bet some of us volunteers could fulfill these requests
if we were allowed to do so. We could download 'em, I have five of
Seltzer's collections and could probably furnish any of the stuff in
them with no problem. I've got Brit Lit, American Lit, Children's Lit,
Religion and his set of books on The Middle East and on India.
<smiling> All public domain and all sitting here in my office, I can
hold them in the palm of my hand, some six thousand books, give or
take. Hey, talk to Seltzer, he might even send you his CD's or his
entire collection on DVD, he has that too. Shoot, you got one DVD
you've got his whole collection. Anyway, if I had the title, I could
put a given title on step One with PDR in the title. PDR would stand
for Public Domain Request. Whatcha think?
Ann P.
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