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
