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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
I wish you luck with the project. I'm not sure many publishers would agree to have books freely distributed in this manner, given recent stories like the "massive wave of e-book piracy" one.
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I'm expect the vast majority to be public domain & creative commons releases, with a few other collections like Baen free library books, and a small handful of specific-permission books. I'm not expecting much in the way of publisher cooperation, and one of the goals is to show that it's possible to assemble a good working library of free ebooks--and if publishers want their books read by the next generation of readers, they'd better figure out how to get those books to them.
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You might look into "Educational Fair Use" copyright policies. Most universities insist that materials falling under that provision be assigned directly by a teacher, but it's still a good starting point.
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Uni fair use policies are all based on "what do we think we can get away with that probably won't get us sued," rather than "what's the maximum use allowed by copyright law." (And they're all useless for this; none suggest entire books be copied & distributed. I'm definitely not putting together a collection of excerpts.)
I'll also be assembling links for free books online, and registered-user-only resources, but my first priority is books that can be handed out freely, rather than books the kids have to download & convert or install themselves.