Gutenberg Canada is live
- From: John Mark Ockerbloom <ockerblo@[redacted]>
- Subject: Gutenberg Canada is live
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:01:21 -0400
I may have just missed the announcement in the Project Gutenberg newsletters,
but I'm happy to see that Project Gutenberg Canada opened up this month!
(Its official opening day was Canada day, July 1.) You can visit it at
http://gutenberg.ca/
Currently the site has about a dozen new texts, and also links to various
existing books from Project Gutenberg US and Australia that are by Canadian
authors. As befitting a Canadian site, the site has content in both
English and French. The web admin isn't listed on the site, but some
publicity releases say that Mark Akrigg is the site admin.
There's two things I find particularly exciting about the site. One is
that it will help encourage more popular Canadian content to go online.
(Our kids are Canadian-Americans growing up in the states, so we'd love
to see more Canadian content accessible to them.) The other is that
it's a Gutenberg site in a country that still has "life+50 years" copyright
terms. (Gutenberg Australia was another such site when it started, but
Australia has extended its copyright terms since then.) So Gutenberg fans
in Canada and other life+50 countries will now have a site where they can
read and post texts that they might not be able to post legally
on other popular online literature sites.
So, Welcome / Bienvenue to Gutenberg Canada! I look forward to seeing
what it produces.
John Mark Ockerbloom