[bookshare-discuss] project gutevberg books.
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 15:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
Oh. I was thinking we could get them donated. I didn't
realize we'd have to pay. I thought all the PG books
were scanned and proofed etc by volunteers, and the
books I had in mind getting were ones unavailable
otherwise. Can PG books be downloaded and "read" in
braille or daisy? If so, then I guess it wouldn't
matter whether or not bookshare had a copy.
Cindy
--- Lisa Friendly <lisaf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:48:55 -0400
> To: "bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT: September's
> fund-raiser
>
> 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
> <http://www.gutenberg.net> . That is
> > where most of Bookshare's public domain books
> originate.
> >
> > Linda Adams
> >
>
>
>
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