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Originally Posted by norway1456
This is the national library - they have their fundings from elsewhere. Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg are mentioned - How many errors are there in Gutenberg files? How many articles on wikipedia needs to be updated and expanded? Could there be errors on Wikipedia that are not detected? I'd say it's likely.
I'm not saying that it's not good enough, I'm simply saying that orphaned books could benefit from proper treatment. Making profits of it could encourage independent publishers to do some of the work for digitizing. If the works owner claims his/her rights, the worst things thay could happen is that he/she gets, for free, a digital version of the book/film/whatever and can sell legitimate copies of it.
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If anyone tries to make a go of it for money then I can't see them chucking any more resources at it than SF Gateway has for backlist sci-fi (Science Fiction/SyFy/Skiffy/Whatever/don't want to resurect that thread again) so in general there are less OCR errors at Project Gutenburg than the books you get from SF Gateway. The important thing is that you
CAN get the books and crowdsourcing the editing means that they will be error free eventually (and probably quicker than a, minimum resource, quick buck seller would do).