A hoax for a good cause... hope this drew some more attention to Project Gutenberg. Imran, copyright-expired books is one category. It's also possible to put up there books who's authors have no objection to sharing. I got two such books put up in the past few months. One was a book on wildlife experences in Goa, and the other, a critique of journalism in this part of India written collaboratively by 21 journalists.

I do wish too that many more India-related books would be up on Project Gutenberg. I read recently of a contract given to IIIT-Hyderabad for digitising books on "numerous topics". They were contracted by the Universal Digital Library (UDL) and claim good progress. But I'm not sure what purpose these digitised books would be deployed for.

Free software ideals should go beyond software... and into various other fields. FN

From: Imran William Smith imran@imran.info Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] Project Gutenberg Buys Amazon.com To: fsf-friends@gnu.org.in Message-ID: 4076FE56.6030200@imran.info Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

Check the URL. April 1st. i.e. it's a joke.

Nevertheless, I encourage everyone to investigate Project Gutenberg and consider contributing. The aim is to transcribe large amounts of paper books and other texts into electronic format, provided that their copyright has expired (making this legal).

Imran Malaysia

Rakesh Ambati wrote:

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hello list,

Here something very interesting to read.

http://www.gutenberg.net/events/pg-amazon-apr1.html