[IAEP] Ancient Manners is on Project Gutenberg!

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:44 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you've read any of my FLOSS Manual "E-Book Enlightenment" you know
> that I've been preparing free e-books and contributing them to the
> Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg Canada, and Distributed
> Proofreaders Canada.  Yesterday I reached an important milestone: my
> very first donation to Project Gutenberg has been accepted.
>
> You can check it out here:
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36378/36378-h/36378-h.htm
>
> It was a very challenging book to create.  I had to deal with Greek
> transliteration, footnotes, umlauts, ligatures, accents of both
> persuasions, United States copyright laws, old pages that did not OCR
> very well, and 90 illustrations, many of them spicy.
>
> Project Gutenberg is the very finest source of free e-books there is.
> It is The Show.  It is white balls in the practice field.  It is women
> with long legs and brains.  It is deep, soft, wet kisses that last for
> three days.  It is the Navy Seals of free e-book repositories.  Just
> getting a copyright clearance for your book is something to be proud
> of.

Congratulations!!! I can tell you are *passionate* about this :-)

cheers,
Sameer
>
> Soon there will also be a hand-crafted version of this book in the
> Kindle Store.  (The Kindle version that PG produces is generated from
> the HTML and is not optimized to look good on the KIndle).  I would
> expect that lavishly illustrated translations of randy French novels
> will sell better than Make Your Own Sugar Activities! did.
>
> Regrettably, Ancient Manners is not suitable reading for young
> children.  Their teachers should enjoy it.
>
> James Simmons
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