Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

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ABSTRACT

HISTORICAL ROOTS

EMPHASIS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

ITEMS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR ONE OF THREE REASONS

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND EARLY MARKUP

PROOFREADING

EVOLUTION IN PROOFREADING: DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS

SCANNING

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE OR PERMISSION

MULTIPLE SOURCES

OTHER CONTENT TYPES

LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

EVOLUTION OF MASTER SOURCE FORMATS

DERIVATIVE FORMATS

UPLOADING A NEW EBOOK

EPUB and MOBI

CATALOGING AND MIRRORING

"NO SWEAT OF THE BROW COPYRIGHT"

EBOOKS, OR PICTURES OF BOOKS?

PAST INNOVATIONS AND FUTURE INITIATIVES

APPRECIATION FOR VOLUNTEERS



Contents

ABSTRACT

HISTORICAL ROOTS

EMPHASIS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

ITEMS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR ONE OF THREE REASONS

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND EARLY MARKUP

PROOFREADING

EVOLUTION IN PROOFREADING: DISTRIBUTED PROOFREADERS

SCANNING

COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE OR PERMISSION

MULTIPLE SOURCES

OTHER CONTENT TYPES

LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

EVOLUTION OF MASTER SOURCE FORMATS

DERIVATIVE FORMATS

UPLOADING A NEW EBOOK

EPUB and MOBI

CATALOGING AND MIRRORING

"NO SWEAT OF THE BROW COPYRIGHT"

EBOOKS, OR PICTURES OF BOOKS?

PAST INNOVATIONS AND FUTURE INITIATIVES

APPRECIATION FOR VOLUNTEERS







                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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