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Old 03-11-2012, 08:15 PM   #173
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Originally Posted by TonyKZ1 View Post
I have a suggestion for the "Get Books" addition to version 0.8.x It is the Project Gutenberg Australia Library, they seem to have some eBooks that aren't listed in the Project Gutenberg that's in the United States.
the link is here:

http://gutenberg.net.au/

Thanks, Tony
The reason is that Australia's copyright expiration time used to be 50 years from the author's death, until it was "improved" to 70 years following the signing of the Free Trade Agreement with the USA. Books already in the public domain in Australia at that time were allowed to stay in the public domain - notably the works of George Orwell. Most of these will not yet be legally in the public domain in the USA.
There are also probably some books that are public domain everywhere, but mainly of local interest, so that they have not been added to the main Gutenberg library.
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