IMHO such a
project *could* work with the wiki system, especially for
OCRed pages that need manual work. This could be done by a community
rather than by a single person, especially if, e.g., a book is broken
into chapters taht can be edited seperately.
It's already been done without a wiki see,
http://charlz.dns2go.com/gutenberg/
Cool! Seems all they need is a better interface to present their proofread
books;)
To Jimbo: How about setting up a [[wikipedia:Support wikipedia]] page, with
a PayPal link like the above site has? That's no advertisement, and the
money (if any;) could go to a special account for the Nupedia foundation
(coming up, right?).