On Sun, 8 May 2005, Richard Poynder wrote:
On 6 May 2005, at 11:29, Michael Hart wrote:
We have received very good conservative legal advice that Project Gutenberg is indeed a library or archive, and probably both, and has been for over a decade.
Branko Collin wrote:
"Likewise, he encouraged libraries to "push back against the easy assertion that Project Gutenberg is a library.""
(I am not sure what that person was on about though. Full article at <http://www.cornellsun.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/06/427b00a8eff7 d>.)
He seemed to be claiming that people cannot make full use of books without the assistance of traditional "gatekeepers" like publishers, teachers and librarians. Since it does not provide these kinds of intermediaries to help readers understand the books it offers he therefore appears to have concluded that PG cannot be called a library.
Richard Poynder
From what I understand, some of this will not be settled until yet another
We get messages all the time from people who want to convince the world that "it isn't and eBook/eLibrary until _I_ say it is an eBook/eLibrary." This would be just fine if they included whatever it was that they said would make the difference to them, then we could decide about using it. Recently just such a discussion ocurred about Frankenstein and about The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, and new editions have already appeared for each of these, and yet another new edition is already in progress for each of them, each with significan improvements from different sources, as well as improvements we tend to make along the way. paper edition of Frankenstein is used for a separate source edition, but that edition has not been forthcoming from the complainant. In just the opposite manner, we DO have source materials for a new Memoirs, and perhaps other Holmes works, as per the Strand magazine and the various book editions, and one way or another, there should be some more Memoirs editions on the way. Thanks!!! Michael