I got this email today, don't know if it's legitimate or what. I also dont know why they singled out me, or thanked me for Wikibooks. Anyway, what do people make of this?
--Andrew Whitworth
From: Worldlibrary webmaster@worldlibrary.net To: Whiteknight wknight8111@hotmail.com Subject: Wikibooks Usage Permission Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:08:43 GMT
Dear Whiteknight,
We would like to thank you for creating such a wonderful e-textbook and e-document collection. The Wikibooks project is a true contribution to the academic and research community by preserving and assisting access to textbooks and references online. We would like to include a link to your collection at www.wikibooks.org and include several of the GNU Free Documentation License Wikibooks in the Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Collection, World eBook Fair, and the World Public Library Consortia. Please accept our sincere wish to recognize your wonderful works by promoting public awareness and readership of the Wikibooks project.
Thank you very much for reviewing our request for use permission of the Wikibooks Collection for inclusion in Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, World eBook Fair, and the World Public Library Consortia for the exclusive purpose of private study, research, criticism or review. The World Public Library and Project Gutenberg Consortia Center are Non-profit organizations dedicated to promote online literacy.
A list of our contributors may be viewed at the following URLs: http://gutenberg.cc/Catalogs.htm, http://worldebookfair.com, and http://worldlibrary.net/Catalogs.htm
1,982 PDF files, Census Bureau eDocument Collection 2,019 PDF files, FOIA's: Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room 2,600 files, CIA Declassified Documents Collection and World Fact Book 1,200 PDF files, Center on Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia 700 PDF files, United Nations Document Collection 584 FWDP PDF files, Collection Fourth World Document Project 11,820 PDF files, Environmental Awareness Library Collection (EPA Collection) 577 PDF files, NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Collection 635 PDF files, NOAA: National Oceanographic Data Center Collection 11,420 PDF files, Medical Publications Collection: Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease Control and Prevention 308 PDF files, The Federal Aviation Administration 6,620 PDF files, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection 7,192 PDF files, U.S. Government Printing Office Collection 2,720 PDF files, White House ePublication Collection 12,000 PDF files, Project Gutenberg Collection 788 files, eBooks@adelaide Collection 450 files Project Gutenberg Australia 15,000 PDF files, Black Mask Collection 900 PDF files, Sacred-Text Collection (Religious Literature) 647 PDF files, Wiretap and Alex (English Literature) 28 PDF files, The Victorian Prose Archive 200 PDF files, Tony Kline Collection 1,700 PDF files, Renascence Editions (Renascence Literature) 277 PDF files, Ebooks Libres & Gratuits Collection (French Literature) 199 PDF files, Classic Chinese Literature Collection 150,000 files ACIP - Asian Classic Input Project 760 PDF files, CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts Collection (Irish Literature 18,000 files ibiblio - World Literature Collection 34,000 PDF files, Logo Group - Multi Language eBook and eDocument Collection 27,000 Music Files, Hawaiian Virtual Library - Hawaiian eMusic Collection 3,000 files Videos Internet Archive 900 PDF files, Peitho's Web 1,300 PDF files, BhuddaNet Collection 109 PDF files, DjVu Edition eBooks 6,000 files Million Book Project and Open Source Collection 100 files Literal Systems Collection 91 PDF files, The Rosetta Project 685 Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts 175 PDF files, The Coradella Bookshelf Collection 58 PDF files, Baen Free Library and more . . .
**(## Wikibooks Collection)**
Please let us know if there is any other way we can be of assistance to Wikibooks project.
Best wishes and aloha,
John
John S. Guagliardo Executive Director, World Public Library, www.WorldLibrary.net Co-Founder, World eBook Fair, www.WorldeBookFair.com Director, Project Gutenberg Consortia Center, www.Gutenberg.cc
P.O. Box 22687 Honolulu, Hawaii 96823 (808) 292-2068 Office (808) 923-2157 Fax John@Gutenberg.us
Project Gutenberg Consortia Center Bringing the World's eBook Collections Together www.Gutenberg.cc
_________________________________________________________________ Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the im Initiative now. Its free. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_MAY07