Upbeat piece from Reuters on free books
Just spotted…a helpful piece from Reuters on free books…
Project Gutenberg, which started it all and has supplied the digital copies used on many other sites, could have gotten more attention, but overall the piece should do more good than harm.
Suggestion: When the press writes about free books on the Internet, perhaps it can mention the copyright-term-extension legislation that deprived the Net of such classics as The Great Gatsby (or at least deprived U.S. users). The Reuters piece refers to Eldritch Press without noting its key role in the recent legal efforts to undo the damage. Via Eldritch, by the way, you can enjoy an HTML edition of The Rise of David Levinsky–discussed recently in this blog.
Coming soon: A quick write-up of software that I found especially helpful for reading ASCII editions of free books.
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