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June 30th, 2006

Auctioning p-books for e-books

By Branko Collin

stories_am_hist.jpgBill Tozier, a prolific supplier of page-scans to Distributed Proofreaders and Teleblog commenter whom we wrote about before, has decided to start auctioning off the physical books he scanned in for Project Gutenberg. The proceeds will go to the Distributed Proofreaders Foundation.

The first of the books Bill is selling is Stories of Later American History, Project Gutenberg e-text #18618. Bidding starts at four cents. If you ever wanted to support Distributed Proofreaders financially, here’s one way to do so while getting a memento in return.

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