Thread: Lack of ePub support a big problem?
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Old 02-15-2011, 05:04 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek View Post
That's terrible! I just did a quick check and project Gutenberg only has 15 e-books in Norwegian, I'm really surprised at that.
Projekt Runeberg has a few more, but yeah, the state of Nordic-language e-books seems to be either ridiculously expensive when available or 19th century leftovers (and the occasional Smashwords self-pub).

Though I suspect the paucity of the Gutenberg offerings is due to a lack of proofreaders for the language, given that apparently a lot of eligible public domain books exist in the national library and seem to be online as scans*, but few people are in a position to transcribe them into usable texts.

* My own grasp of the language is pretty shaky, so I may have misread that part.
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