I don't understand why we should use Bookshare resources to house books from PG when those same books can be had from PG's site. PG doesn't charge for their books since they are in the public domain.
Wouldn't it be more effective to point folks who want those books to go to the PG site? That way they would have access to Bookshare and also to PG resources.
Just my 2 cents worth.----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Lisa Friendly" <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 7:54 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: FW: Gutenberg Books
I agree with Jim about not doing wholesale taking, but if someone wants an old book that isn't otherwhere available and is from there, we could take it. I validated somethibng on bookshare--don't know where the submission came from, but the only place I could find a book to compare was PG--it was Prince of Sknners. I don't remember what the request was--I'll check our wish list and see if I can find it and resend it to you, Lisa. Cindy --- Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Resending ------ Forwarded Message From: <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 14:57:23 -0700 To: Lisa Friendly <LisaF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <"bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"> Conversation: Gutenberg Books Subject: Gutenberg Books I think we¹d be willing to loosen our limitations on digital book acceptances when it comes to public domain Gutenberg books. Because they are public domain, nobody is breaking any rules submitting them to Bookshare.org. And, the Gutenberg team can be relied upon when they decide something is public domain (the question is complex and we have to be careful). They are very supportive of our work, and we didn¹t license the books from them, we just did them the courtesy of touching base before using them. We¹re not really competitors: they do a great job on public domain, and as Lisa notes, we¹re working on copyrighted material almost exclusively (which Gutenberg generally can¹t). So, we complement each other We just haven¹t allocated the effort to convert more Gutenberg books since our original launch five years ago. We¹ve not gotten a lot of requests for them. Another disadvantage is that the Gutenberg books are generally unformatted ASCII text. When we did the big import, we just inserted page breaks every 60 lines or so. If it¹s of big interest to our users, we¹d probably do another big import. But, it would flood the new book listing with a lot of boring books! Jim From: Lisa Friendly Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 12:59 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"; Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: September's fund-raiser Jim will want to comment further on this, but I believe the thinking here is that if the books are available already on Gutenberg then our limited resources are better spent getting different books into the Bookshare collection. Lisa ------ End of Forwarded Message____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxPut the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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