http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/25/new-goal-for-project-gutenberg-one-billion-readers/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:51:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/25/new-goal-for-project-gutenberg-one-billion-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-1064949 Jon Jermey Mon, 25 May 2009 21:24:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22459#comment-1064949 One of the most frightening things I ever read was posted some years ago in the eBooks mailing list by a professional author: it was along the lines of "We should try find some way to stop these b---s from giving books away for free!" Gutenberg is doing well and should be congratulated; but they should not underestimate the size and the passion of the forces ranged against them. The copyright lobby would extend ownership back to the dawn of time if they thought they could get away with it. One of the most frightening things I ever read was posted some years ago in the eBooks mailing list by a professional author: it was along the lines of “We should try find some way to stop these b—s from giving books away for free!” Gutenberg is doing well and should be congratulated; but they should not underestimate the size and the passion of the forces ranged against them. The copyright lobby would extend ownership back to the dawn of time if they thought they could get away with it.

]]> http://www.teleread.org/2009/05/25/new-goal-for-project-gutenberg-one-billion-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-1064852 Daniel Udsen Mon, 25 May 2009 17:37:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=22459#comment-1064852 The backdrop of this is that PG is damn close to the 100m mark, a fact most of the commercial ebook actors really dont like because it tells them that they are in the same mess as the newspaper industry, it's hard to sell anything but the higest grade stuff in a market where public domain is competing head to head with no real barriers caused by the existing sale infrastructure. The backdrop of this is that PG is damn close to the 100m mark, a fact most of the commercial ebook actors really dont like because it tells them that they are in the same mess as the newspaper industry, it’s hard to sell anything but the higest grade stuff in a market where public domain is competing head to head with no real barriers caused by the existing sale infrastructure.

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