Understand the issue of editing. My proposal would be to supply an editable file in OpenOffice or MS doc format (BTW if you are not using the Open Source OpenOffice suite I recommend you check it out - the features are great, at least as feature rich as MS word, plus - one button PDF creation, output as doc, text or native XML format and a great price = $0! http://www.openoffice.org ). I propose to take nothing away you will have edit control over the file. This also opens up another question over what base document formats you have standardized for editability and portability e.g. OASIS etc.. Maybe that is a topic another list. Finally I note you have PDF formats available for some other books. Andrew Sly wrote:
One possible problem is that PDF files are not easily editable.
All of our older texts are being gradually worked through, corrected, supplied with a new PG header (which puts all the legal "small print" at the end of the file instead of the beginning) and REPosted into the currant directory structure. When this process is done it will make some of the back-end organization much easier to deal with.
However, if during this process, we come across a non-editable file (PDF, Lit, whatever), we cannot update it, and it's generally moved into an "old" directory, where it is still availible if someone goes looking for it, but otherwise is not shown in the catalog.
Andrew
Having discovered Jane Austen regrettably late in life I have down-loaded a couple of novels and since I find the raw text format unpleasant to read I have reformatted for my own use. It seems to me since I have the ability to produce PDFs and OpenOffice formats and even - heaven forfend - MS doc format should they be wanted, it would be churlish not to make such an offer. If you can point me at a standard for PDF, page width, font size etc, etc., and let me know what formats you do want I would be happy to undertake the small additional work for the two novels I have currently downloaded. I cannot supply DocBook at this time but hope to have that available shortly. Regards
-- Ron Aitchison