Michael, as long as the book can be proven to have been published before 1923, it's in the public domain in the U.S., and is eligible for addition to the Project Gutenberg collection. (For the past few years, Archive.org and Google Books have been the source for most PG submissions, as produced by Distributed Proofreaders and other submitters.) A paper copy is not necessary. For most books in Internet Archive, there's an "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box, at the left. That gives access to all formats in which the book is available--GIF, PDF, TIF, etc. Before beginning work on any book, you should check that it's not already in Project Gutenberg, and not being worked on by someone else by checking David Price's In-progress list at http://www.dprice48.freeserve.co.uk/GutIP.html. If you haven't prepared an ebook for submission to PG, you should read its various FAQ's at http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:FAQ. Section 7 of the Volunteers' FAQ is especially important. Al Haines Project Gutenberg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McDermott" <mmcdermott@mad-computer-scientist.com> To: "gutvol-d" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:38 PM Subject: [gutvol-d] Question about Scanned Books
Archive.org has many DJVU files of books that have lapsed into the public domain. Would it comply with PG's guidelines to take one of these volumes (the one I was thinking of has a copyright date of 1915 and can be found at http://www.archive.org/details/worksmartinluth00spaegoog)?
The important elements here are:
1) I do not have a copy of the paper edition 2) This is a scan of a work that, by all appearances, qualifies having been published in the US before 1923 3) Was digitized by Google
Would this work or would its ancestry cause problems? -- Michael McDermott www.mad-computer-scientist.com _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/listinfo/gutvol-d