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stbalbach |
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March 25, 2011 11:35:41am |
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texts
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Re: Google Book settlement denied |
Yes, there is a gold mine of material out there waiting to be digitized.
I just found
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center. It looks like a project to focus on the post-1923 works. It says:
"..this center acts as a clearinghouse for eBooks presumed to be public domain in the United States, but whose copyright data are not yet sufficient to pass the extreme copyright research required for inclusion in the general Project Gutenberg collection as per copyright requirements in the United States. There will also be Project Gutenberg Consortia Centers for "life +50," "life +70" countries, and hopefully even for "life +60" countries such as India, Venezuela, etc."
For example I found a book there I want to read,
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), originally housed at
World Public Library, since formatted and
uploaded to Internet Archive's Community Text library. Interesting tangle of projects.
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