[Wikipedia-l] Buying public domain books

[Fred Bauder]

I could do this as I am always searching for books. This can cost a lot or a
little, luck has a lot to do with it. Make a list and I can start looking
then email likely purchases to Jimbo.

One we could probably use and would be worth paying a bit for would be the
Cambridge History of English and American Literature. It is up on Bartelsby
at

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

Early volumes and perhaps all of the first edition of the Oxford English
dictionary too

Most of the really good public domain reference books are in the better old
libraries such as Yale and Oxford and can be viewed there and an evaluation
made.

Fred

> From: Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com>
> Reply-To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:38:02 -0800
> To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] what to do with the money?
> 
> Imran Ghory wrote:
>> Something else we could do is use the money to obtain public domain books
>> (e.g. biographical encyclopedias) that can be scanned/ocred and used for
>> creating basic articles in areas which wikipedia currently lacks coverage.
> 
> What would something like that cost, anyway?  My guess is that if
> someone wanted to do this, the cost would be close to zero anyway, am
> I wrong?
> 
> --Jimbo
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