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Note that it's considered okay to spiff up basic public domain books which is why they're called that and then sell them for the value of what you've done to make them comfortably readable on an e-reader and, we hope, typo-free.
Even this would be legal, as, again, the basic text, once there are no Project title pages, is in the public domain. Pegoraro explains: ' The titles in question aren't just public-domain books that have long been freely available at such sites as Project Gutenberg. They appear to be the exact Gutenberg files, save only for minor formatting adjustments and the removal of that volunteer-run site's license information.
Pegoraro expands on this: ' Gutenberg contributor Linda M. She added that "their version had all my caption lines, in exactly the same place where I had put them. Everhart describes the kind of work she and others do to make the free Project Gutenberg books available, which involves downloading a scan of the book's pages from the Internet Archive's collection , running it through optical-character-recognition software and then correcting mistakes and stripping out extraneous data "before formatting the text to Gutenberg's strict guidelines.
Next comes converting that text file into an HTML version with linked images that can finally be uploaded to Gutenberg. But, again, all this is permitted under the Gutenberg license.
Is it ethical? I don't think it is. See the article for Amazon's response so far. Newby has suggested to Amazon that it could directly offer Gutenberg titles as no-charge, DRM-free downloads -- something Apple did in its iBooks store. He doesn't mention what the terms were though, on Gutenberg's part. Not only does that site usually offer books in Kindle formats, you can even download them directly to a Kindle.
These tend to be even better formatted, with linked table-of-contents page when applicable, and mostly free. I explain that at the Internet Archive article. That syncing can't be done for ebooks that Amazon doesn't have on its servers. Also, highlighting and notes made on non-Amazon books aren't backed up to the Amazon servers as Amazon doesn't have the books and therefore aren't viewable and copyable at the customer's private, password protected website at Amazon.
This might be important to those who have a student's approach to books. Amazon probably should have a rule against self-service publishing in Kindle format of a public domain book that has been carefully converted to text by another entity, proofread, formatted in HTML and already released in Kindle-readable format at no charge -- but then Amazon would have to spend time checking all the uploaded public domain books against other editions of those books.
Still, they could probably stipulate that there is no publisher payment for books just taken from Project Gutenberg and the Project's identifier statements stripped. UPDATE - If you're reading this at the web edition of the blog, please read the first two comments to see the licensing language that Project Gutenberg has, which says that that if anyone modifies a Project Gutenberg book and does charge for it, they don't claim a right to prevent someone from "copying, distributing, performing, displaying, or creating derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg are removed.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Are Gutenberg books illegal to sell in Germany? Ask Question. Asked 11 months ago. Active 13 days ago. Viewed times. My questions are: Does this mean I cannot sell any books in Germany? If there is a safer, more copyright-generic source than Gutenberg, I can utilize that too. If at all infringement occurs, what sort of difficulties could arise for me? Improve this question. Nirav Bhatt Nirav Bhatt 2 2 bronze badges. I'm not sure if this is on-topic here - you may want to check out Law for questions about the law.
Note that they don't offer personalized legal advice — bobble. Um, I'm not sure you're allowed to charge money for books that are already in the public domain i. Especially because it's an Ebook, so you're not charging for printing the book and stuff. I am charging for better reading service that I provide, and it's not just a website I maintain.
Gutenberg's terms do not restrict me in anyway. Plus, I see Amazon and every other publisher selling them online as classics.
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