[bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.
- From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:50:36 -0600
Re: [bookshare-discuss] Getting books from P.G.Hi, Amber. Just in case
www.gutenberg.org is complicated and doesn't show you the list of books easily,
try www.gutenberg.net. You can browse by title, author or search for a
specific title or author. If you browse, you will find the books under each
letter of the alphabet.
Regarding Bookshare and Gutenberg, I'm confused. I am assuming that if we can
get public domain books only by scanning them ourselves, in order for us to
scan, we would have to find a book old enough to have been printed before the
copyright expired on the book and wasn't renewed. In that case, the copyright
information would be plainly in the book, which, of course, we would scan and
leave in the book. Therefore, that particular book that we scanned for
Bookshare would not actually be a public domain book. How, then, did Bookshare
get what they call public domain books if they don't work with Gutenberg? Does
Bookshare look through a national database periodically, see what books'
copyrights have recently expired, and then buy whatever print copies are still
available, scan them, and call them public domain books? Just curious.
Linda Adams
----- Original Message -----
From: Amber
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 3:00 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.
not to be dumb or anything but can you tell me how to get to pg. Amber
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Beaver
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 3:24 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.
Hi all,
Anyone can access any book that exists on PG. All the books they have are
available to all.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Friendly
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ;
"bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"@freelists.org
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 4:00 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Getting books from P.G.
Now I'm worried whether I followed through! If there's a specific book
someone needs from PG and they can't access it there, do let me know!
And thanks for that nice complement!
Lisa
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From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 00:45:46 -0700 (PDT)
To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Getting books from P.G.
Yes, I would think that we ought to be able to get
public domain books from P.G. Some of the old books
are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get
otherwise. There was a book requested recently--I
can't remember what, that I was asking if we could get
from P.G. I think Lisa Friendly was going to ask about
it. (Isn't that a perfectly fitting name for her?)
Cindy
--- Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Linda. I would have to change the tense of the
> word originate to
> originated.
> Bookshare licensed a block of public domain books
> from Gutenberg shortly
> after it opened its doors six years ago, but unless
> something new has
> happened, we no longer receive books from them. We
> are also not allowed
> to submit books from their collection unless we scan
> them ourselves. So
> in my mind, we are actually competitors of a sort, 2
> organizations who
> for whatever reason do not share our resources of
> public domain books.
> I'm not saying that the work of Gutenberg isn't
> worthy of donations. I
> will say that I think it's really silly that we
> can't work together to
> continue making additional public domain books
> available to both
> organizations.
>
> Monica Willyard
>
>
> Linda Adams wrote:
> > Hi, Julie. For some reason, any message I send to
> your e-mail address
> > bounces back to me, so I'll mention something
> here. An organization
> > donation possibility might be www.gutenberg.net.
> That is where most
> > of Bookshare's public domain books originate.
> >
> > Linda Adams
> >
>
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