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Re:Standard Ebooks by lumb63 on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:01PM (#32217109)
Love this project! I’ve read several books from Project Gutenberg and owe a great deal to the project. I love seeing this extension of it and will be sure to avail myself of it and possibly contribute one day!

Not a question, so much as a suggestion from an interested netizen: it would be great to see changes flowed back up to Gutenberg. I know they have a process for submitting updates - I’ve made several to The Wealth of Nations myself.

Thanks for sharing the project, and I look forward to my next read!

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Re:Standard Ebooks by robin_reala on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:23PM (#32217313)
It’s down to the producer, but 95% of the SE books I produce have changes upstreamed to PG. There’s no competition between us: we both serve different niches.
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Re:Standard Ebooks by KennyBlanken on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:20PM (#32218798)
Yeah, the question is: why this, and not just put in with Project Gutenberg?
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Re:Standard Ebooks by sigzero on Sunday July 24, 2022 @08:56PM (#32219422)
I think the differentiator is that SE puts a lot more care into the creation of the end product than PG.
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Re:Standard Ebooks by robin_reala on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:46AM (#32220916)
I think that’s a little unfair on PG. Their goal is digital preservation, whilst SE’s is readability. We couldn’t do what we do without PG, and there’s (luckily) space for both projects to coexist in a mutually beneficial way. And the reader gets to pick a source that best matches what they’re looking for.
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