"Bill" == Bill Purvis <gut@billp.org> writes:
Bill> Hi, I've just signed up to this list. Bill> I found Gutenberg a few years ago, but didn't have scanning Bill> or OCR facilities. I have recently bought a Kindle and Bill> down-loaded quite a few books. Bill> I have scanned and part-proof-read my copy of John Buchan's Bill> 'Castle Gay', and see that there is no copy of this in the Bill> catalog. I've been trying to work out how I can contribute Bill> this, but the volunteering pages all assume that only Bill> proof-readers for already uploaded books are needed. I have Bill> a number of other John Buchan books that I could work on, Bill> but is there any point? This book has been published in 1930 (after 1922), hence it is still subject to copyright in the US, so Project Gutenberg cannot publish it. Since John Buchanan died in 1940, his works are in the public domain in almost every country, in particular in Canada. This makes his books suitable for Project Gutenberg Canada, also because of his connections with Canada. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan,_1st_Baron_Tweedsmuir. The best entry point could be through Distributed Proofreaders Canada, http://pgdpcanada.net Of course, if you have pre-1923 books, they can be published by Project Gutenberg too. See for example http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Public_Domain_eBook_Submission_How-T... on how to contribute directly to PG without passing through Distributed Proofreaders or DP canada. Carlo