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HarryT · 01-05-2011, 09:02 AM

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I'm afraid that we're unable to host these books at MobileRead, for a number of reasons:

We have separate servers for files which are in the public domain in Canada, and files which are in the public domain in the United States. The books would need to be split into these two categories.
We do not host books which are direct copies of those available at sites such as Project Gutenberg. Our eBook collection only contains books which have been hand-formatted to add value to such source material. It's unclear to us whether or not the books in this collection meet that "value added" requirement.
The original poster states that the collection contains books from the Baen Free Library. These are indeed free, but they are not redistributable (ie they have to be downloaded from Baen's site). These books (and any other "free but not redistributable" material) would need to be removed from the collection.

For these reasons we must decline to host this collection at MobileRead.

01-05-2011, 09:02 AM	#8
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,556 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Moderator Notice I'm afraid that we're unable to host these books at MobileRead, for a number of reasons: We have separate servers for files which are in the public domain in Canada, and files which are in the public domain in the United States. The books would need to be split into these two categories. We do not host books which are direct copies of those available at sites such as Project Gutenberg. Our eBook collection only contains books which have been hand-formatted to add value to such source material. It's unclear to us whether or not the books in this collection meet that "value added" requirement. The original poster states that the collection contains books from the Baen Free Library. These are indeed free, but they are not redistributable (ie they have to be downloaded from Baen's site). These books (and any other "free but not redistributable" material) would need to be removed from the collection. For these reasons we must decline to host this collection at MobileRead.