-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org]On Behalf Of Michael Dyck Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:55 PM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] PG audience Michael Hart wrote:
If we cater to scholars, we are only expanding the "digital divide," so to speak. Our goal is to provide a large viable library to all, not just to the scholars, who represent less than 1% of the people, and are often very elitist.
I don't think anyone is advocating providing the PG library "just to the scholars", so that's a strawman. Instead, some people simply want to make PG texts more useful to scholars than they currently are, and I think we can do that without making them less useful or less available to non-scholars. -Michael **I have all kinds of books on my shelf- first edition anthro texts, humor books, cook books. Each one of them has a publisher and info on the publishing date. If PG is a publishing house for out-of-copyright books, fine. But it's supposedly a book repository. If it's a repository of books that were actually published in the real world, why are the original paginations, illustrations and figures, maps, indexes and bibliographies, and publication dates such a problem? If I want to be taken seriously as an engineer but I use my own terminology for basic engineering terms or just refuse to lose them at all, why should I get shirty if engineers with college degrees don't take me seriously? _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d