Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I am happy to announce that the infamous illustration problem in PublicDomainReprints.org has been fixed. Since the inception, our file conversion had issued with certain Internet Archive titles that had illustrations. That has been fixed as follows:
1. If a book has less than 6 illustrations, it will process in pure ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I did some minor interface updates:
1. A new section was added to the site listing titles that are pending in queue to be processed.
2. Pages for titles already processed were enhanced with cover images and metadata from the original archives, as well as enhanced listing of reprints and links to ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I am going away on vacation until April 30th. If you contact me between now and that date, rest assured that your message was received but you will not get a reply until after that date. For emergencies, please call me at 410-696-4611.
As a pre-caution, PublicDomainReprints.org processing of requests has ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Over the weekend I coded up a new BETA search function for PublicDomainReprints.org which uses Google's AJAX Search API. This new search (which can be found here), lets people search for more public domain books and request reprints without leaving the site. The original search is still available on the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Dan Cohen recently interviewed me for his podcast at DigitalCampus.tv. You can listed to it here, my interview starts at about 20 minutes in. It is focused mainly on PublicDomainReprints.org and surrounding issues.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Some regular updates:
1. Amazon EC2 image upgraded to Fedore Core 8.
2. The processed book lists and the 20 recent book RSS feed now point to a book details page.
3. Support for additional link formats has been added.
4. Store links have been removed since they were confusing people.
5. We are still ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Here are some bug fixes that were implemented on PublicDomainReprints.org:
Resizing for Internet Archive books did not fully work for books that were too large. This has been fixed.
Support for illustrations in Google Books has been fixed.
Support for more Google Books URLs has been added.
Rudimentary support for extra margins has been ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Over the weekend, some minor updates were applied to the PublicDomainReprints.org website and service:
1. A separate RSS feed now exists for updates and blog posts. For now, the blog posts are being pulled out of my personal blog but as the service grows that will probably change.
2. An expanded IPR page now lists terms and conditions of originating archives.
3. The processed books page now has links to ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
The last week has been a whirlwind in terms of traffic - over 7,000 hits resulting from various blog posts from around the web as well as various bookmarking services. I want to thank all of people who helped publicize this little project and want to mention below some of the most significant posts:
Open Access News post by Peter Suber (Nov 22nd, 2007)
Teleread post by David Rothman ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
My little experiment for reprinting public domain books has been running for a little over a month. About 75 books have been setup and printed so far. Today I have added support for public domain books from Google Book Search and moved the service to its own domain. It will ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
A small project that I have been working on for a while is now public. It is intended to reprint public domain books from the Internet Archive via on demand printing technology. Here is how it works:
1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive.
2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no upfront fee print on demand company.
3. You can order the printed book from Lulu at cost (almost, a small under $1 fee
is surcharged to cover cost of conversion servers rented from Amazon EC2).
The project is called "Public Domain Books Reprints Service" and can ...
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