G'day, Lane!
That's great!
We do it at the National Library of Medicine:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK51661/
(Here's an example of what we do with some of them - they also end up in PubMed):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/understanding-research-results/
Happy to talk about this (and interested in what books you're talking about, in case
any are relevant for us.)
Hilda
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From: Lane Rasberry [lane(a)bluerasberry.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:36 AM
To: North American Cultural Partnerships
Subject: [GLAM-US] donating books to free licensure...
Hello,
My organization owns the copyrights to some books and would like to re-license them for
sharing. The goal in doing this would be to maximize the possibility of the books being
read. I am aware that Wikisource hosts books and that anyone can download these books as
PDFs and EPUBs. Here, for example, is Moby Dick.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
I was thinking to share books through a Wikimedia project, but I am also interested in
sharing them through other channels if that would get them to the people who wanted them.
I am especially interested in enabling these books to be found and read on mobile devices.
I wanted to ask this list some questions -
1. Has anyone done this before?
2. Does anyone know of a process for making this work?
3. Does anyone know about making shared books available through many popular readers,
including iBooks, Google Play's bookstore, and Amazon Kindle?
4. Does anyone else have books they are sharing or want to share, and if so might like
you like to chat with me?
Thanks,
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Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lane@bluerasberry.com<mailto:lane@bluerasberry.com>