On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:00:34PM -0400, Scott Lawton wrote:
And answering another request from another message: I have LOTS of scanned title pages. Where would you like them?
If there is diskspace + bandwidth to host and serve them, I think it would be useful to post every title page somewhere. Or, at least to start with the top 100 or 1000 or some reasonable subset.
For example, I recently did a massive review of the "catalog" data (posted to GUTCAT, alas with minimal response). With so many inconsistencies between various sources, I would like to be able to reference the original.
I do have all of the title pages & verso pages submitted electronically. This is thousands and thousands of images. Our new copyright system makes it relatively easy to just find one online (though I have not made this feature available - but it's easy). I think this will be a good method for the future. The older system is not as easy, but I still have the images. Just email me if you need images for a particular item. If you'd rather, I could package up the older clearances (pre-August '04 or so) and get them to you. It's probably < 2GB total. N.B., this stuff is not suitable for public redistribution with our eBooks. Many scans are not very high quality. Some are, and it would be fine with me to make them publicly available somewhere. I don't have much opinion about including these with the eBooks themselves - that's something for the producer to decide. Most title & verso pages are pretty boring, though, so probably are not worth including as part of an eBook. -- Greg