If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:
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If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:
1. Check standardebooks.org before Gutenberg. They clean up books from Gutenberg with sane typography and print design.
2. Consider buying a "Dover Thrift Editions" version of the ebook. Many fly-by-night ebook "publishers" are turning a quick buck on selling you a Gutenberg edition. Dover is a real publisher, even in print, and their well-formatted ebooks of public domain works are usually under $4, or even less.
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If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:
1. Check standardebooks.org before Gutenberg. They clean up books from Gutenberg with sane typography and print design.
2. Consider buying a "Dover Thrift Editions" version of the ebook. Many fly-by-night ebook "publishers" are turning a quick buck on selling you a Gutenberg edition. Dover is a real publisher, even in print, and their well-formatted ebooks of public domain works are usually under $4, or even less.
@jsit@social.coop
I'm assuming neither of them kicks anything back/ up back to Project Gutenberg though for supplying the raw "source" for everything they're selling? -
@jsit@social.coop
I'm assuming neither of them kicks anything back/ up back to Project Gutenberg though for supplying the raw "source" for everything they're selling? -
@squishymage42@dice.camp @jsit@social.coop
If you're making money off someone's volunteer'd work at least throw some shekels at the people/ group/ organization that made it possible for you to make your money. -
@squishymage42@dice.camp @jsit@social.coop
If you're making money off someone's volunteer'd work at least throw some shekels at the people/ group/ organization that made it possible for you to make your money.@gme @jsit Standard isn't selling books, they provide them free of charge. They have a Patreon that defrays server costs.
And like I said, the same volunteers using the texts to generate the formatted epubs for Standard Ebooks are mostly the people who are producing the texts for Gutenberg as new things enter the public domain.
(The community of people dedicated enough to public domain books being available that they spend time making them available being smallish)
