Questions regarding "upload ebook with format"?

[Steven]

This feature seems almost entirely undocumented. (Two lines in the manual.)

I've been making updates to some P.G. Wodehouse books -- these books usually have a Project Gutenberg edition. Project Gutenberg books are available in a variety of formats. Many Project Gutenberg books are available human-read (sometimes a number of times) at Librivox.org.

When is it appropriate to upload an ebook? (I know I need to legally have permission to do so -- I have this with Project Gutenberg books.)

Is it appropriate to do this every time, for any book hosted at Project Gutenberg?

How many formats should be uploaded?

You have the following available:

* upload HTML ebook (available at PG)
* upload ZIP ebook (See comment)
* upload ePub ebook (available at PG)
* upload MP3 ebook (frequently available at Librivox)
* upload txt ebook (available at PG)
* upload PDF ebook (sometimes available at PG)
* upload Mobipocket/Kindle ebook (Mobi available at PG)

What format is the ZIP ebook? Does the Zip file contain a plain-text file, an HTML file, MP3s? Can you pick that later? This is really the big question.

I only periodically see a PDF for a book at Project Gutenberg. I think it is only available if a human-created HTML file is available.

The uploading of MP3 audiobooks is easiest if it accepts a Zip file containing a set of MP3 files. All of their books are composed of multiple MP3 files. Additionally, many of the Librivox books get read multiple times. How many versions do you want uploaded, and is there a policy on which edition is uploaded?

However, not all of the Project Gutenberg ebooks have been created by humans. Some are converted to other formats, and these are not as high a quality as the human-checked texts. Should we only upload human-checked texts -- and not the "(experimental)" computer-generated ebooks?

For the Librarians hosted outside of the U.S. the copyright laws are different and some books in the public domain in the U.S. may still be copyrighted in their countries -- and vice versa. There is, for instance, an Australian Project Gutenberg site that has different material than the US Project Gutenberg site. As you are hosted in California, do you only want the ebooks you can redistribute in the U.S.? (Folks in Australia could, for instance, legally upload a book that can not be legally hosted -- let alone downloaded -- in the U.S.)

And last of all, should we be performing the upload on Project Gutenberg (and Librivox) editions only, or do they get mapped to all editions the way characters and locations do?

[Paula]

Steven

This is really a question for the GR Feedback group. That is the group that decide policies etc

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1...

Have you seen GR Copyright info?

http://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/copyr...

[Steven]

Thanks, Paula. I'll reask this there.