[bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes
- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:31:46 -0500
There are things I have wanted to find and scan just because I think they
might be indanger of disappearing if they are not scanned and kept
electronically now. I wonder if at some time far in the future, bookshare
will become a valuable source for books who's printed editions have been
lost. I am always asking for books that at one time were part of my local
library's collection, but have been lost. Some of them couldn't be provided
through an interlibrary lone either.
I think it is fabulous that Project GUTENBERG exists for this reason, and
because it makes reading all those old books really easy.
I may be strange, but I kind of enjoy having some volunteer work to do, and
scanning suits me just fine. I only start to hate it when I get an
extremely stubborn book with horrible print, or formatting that really can't
be put together again. Anyone want to write the scanner's version of humpty
dumpty? lol
If it can be fixed, I don't mind fixing it. but Who knows if my wrists will
continue to aggree. :-)
Sarah Van Oosterwijck
curious entity at earthlink dot net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:01 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare's Purpose in Your Eyes
> At 03:25 PM 6/9/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >5. Even if you choose to pay for you Bookshare membership, that
money
> >goes
> > > >to Bookshare. Neither the author nor the publisher get any of it.
That
> > > >starts to look pretty significant if someone is downloading 100 books
a
> > > >month.
>
> Hi. I have one question though. What if a book is out of print? Let us
> take a book from the 1970's or 1960's. Who gets money from that? Not the
> publishers since they don't publish it now. Not the authors because they
> are most often paid by the publishers. The libraries, maybe? I doubt it,
> really. OK, we better remove every out of print title, especially all
> those science fiction books. Sorry Paul Edwards and others, your scans
are
> not allowed because they could not be bought from the publisher. My point
> here is to be absurd. I doubt if someone will throw away abook because it
> is out of print, but the publishers make nothing from them. The
publishers
> make nothing from bookshare.org either. Do you see the paralel here?
>
>
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