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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Because of a recent unexplained mess with my Google Checkout account (subject of the next post), I like many others started looking for a phone number for them. One would think that given that this is a service people actually pay money for, there would be good support. However, there ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
As part of last week's upgrade, the reprints processing has been disabled. I have finally brought the processing up to code with the rest of the project, and most pending requests are being processed as we speak.
Coming soon - new printing vendors, new binding types, and more features!
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
The number is 877-206-4253. This is the department that handles second level support and abuse issues. This is also the number to call if you get an email from 1&1 Internet about hacking activity in your account.
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
We just finished an upgrade and added new functionality to PublicDomainReprints.org. Prior to today, any requested titles would result in a single reprint. This was not flexible enough since it did not allow for multiple bindings or editions of the same title. We have now changes the site to support ...
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Over the next few days, we will be upgrading PublicDomainReprints.org. Expect intermittent issues.
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
I have added an experimental mobile search function for PublicDomainReprints.org. It is available here:
http://www.publicdomainreprints.org/m
You can search, read and request reprints from your mobile phone. Unlike Google Book search mobile, this supports any mobile phone AND does Internet archive books as well - it includes an experimental mobile reader for Internet ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
We added a list of other reprint publishers and services right here for those books that cannot be located via our service.
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
I just added experimental support for Congressional Research Service reports hosted by OpenCRS.com / CDT. Most of these are very small (under 40 pages) and our service will support them as a matter of convenience for those who want a bound copy. Due to the small number of pages, majority ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
I updated the IPR policy for PublicDomainReprints.org with a small paragraph explaining why scans of public domain works are not under copyrighted and a reference to the approriate court case as follows:
As per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. (36 F. Supp. 2d 191 - SDNY 1999), exact photographic reproductions ...
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
(This is a followup to one of the points in my earlier post about Google Books changes)
Paul Durrant in a comment on the TeleRead blog cited a very interesting factoid:
In the US, at least, you can’t claim copyright on an out-of-copyright work just through simple mechanical reproduction of the work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp.
According ...
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