10 Aug
2010
10 Aug
'10
7:29 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
If you look at them, you'll see they are of a topic complimentary to the Gutenberg mission.
But they aren't. Advertisements masquerading as books, which is really what these are, detract from the Gutenberg mission.
The vast majority of the collection is, and will remain, public domain.
And how are you going to insure that? What happens when some other publisher offers to dump a thousand or ten thousands excerpts from their current collection on PG? I have a very hard time with anything on the justification that it'll just be this once, when there's nothing exceptional about it. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.