...I've been wanting to do this for a while, but have been short-handed. But I'm sure there's somebody reading this who can help me.
BiblioBytes (http://www.bb.com) gives away books on the net. We sell ads on the pages, and authors share in the ad revenue... which means authors of more recent works also put their works online, such as fiction from Neil Gaiman, Peter David, Nancy Kress, Barry Longyear, Ron Goulart and others, and nonfiction like The Temp Survival Guide by Brian Hassett.
PG grants reproduction rights to anybody who wants to distribute their books commercially, as long as PG gets 20% of the revenue-- but I'm shorthanded and haven't had the resources to do the conversions necessary on books in the public domain when there are living authors and expiring contracts to take care of first.
So I'm appealing to you folks. Anybody who wants to mark up PG texts to our stylesheet (basically HTML with certain conventions) is invited to contact me to work out the details. In compensation, I'm willing to give an additional 15% of the revenue generated to whoever does the markup and formatting.
The books will then be in a web friendly format, and PG will get funding from it. And so will you.
Send me email at comment@bb.com if you're interested.
By the year 2003, your telephone bill will be one flat charge, allowing you to call almost anywhere on the planet for unlimited amounts of time. Long distance charges will be eradicated.
There's a way to do it while authors still get paid-- we've been doing it for years. Check BiblioBytes out.
It's not "open source" publishing-- authors still controls their own copyright and we pay them out of ad revenue, so living authors can continue to live-- but it is free to read online, which is as much as we can ask for.
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...I've been wanting to do this for a while, but have been short-handed. But I'm sure there's somebody reading this who can help me.
BiblioBytes (http://www.bb.com) gives away books on the net. We sell ads on the pages, and authors share in the ad revenue... which means authors of more recent works also put their works online, such as fiction from Neil Gaiman, Peter David, Nancy Kress, Barry Longyear, Ron Goulart and others, and nonfiction like The Temp Survival Guide by Brian Hassett.
PG grants reproduction rights to anybody who wants to distribute their books commercially, as long as PG gets 20% of the revenue-- but I'm shorthanded and haven't had the resources to do the conversions necessary on books in the public domain when there are living authors and expiring contracts to take care of first.
So I'm appealing to you folks. Anybody who wants to mark up PG texts to our stylesheet (basically HTML with certain conventions) is invited to contact me to work out the details. In compensation, I'm willing to give an additional 15% of the revenue generated to whoever does the markup and formatting.
The books will then be in a web friendly format, and PG will get funding from it. And so will you.
Send me email at comment@bb.com if you're interested.
By the year 2003, your telephone bill will be one flat charge, allowing you to call almost anywhere on the planet for unlimited amounts of time. Long distance charges will be eradicated.
It's not "open source" publishing-- authors still controls their own copyright and we pay them out of ad revenue, so living authors can continue to live-- but it is free to read online, which is as much as we can ask for.