Um, I'm a bit confused. I've been reading through this thread, as well as various other related threads elsewhere here in the forums, and if I upload an ebook for others to download, am I effectively relinquishing my rights (copyright) to it?
To explain a bit further... I've been working for the whole summer on a Shakespeare anthology (a selection of some of his plays and poems), a digital transcription of the First Folio edition (and other first editions), along with a couple of rarely-ever-published works by other authors.
I realize that Shakespeare is public domain, however, much of those digital transcriptions -- and
all of the formatting, etc. -- are my own efforts, and hence copyrightable by me (just in the same way that any major print publisher could come out with a "new" book of public domain Shakespeare plays, but their efforts in the "new" format, etc. are their copyright).
I'm a bit confused here as to whether Mobileread itself considers anything I upload here automatically in the public domain, simply because I'm willing to share it here???
PLUS, I also saw a mention here in another thread (somewhere) that there's people and/or companies out there "stealing" books from here, and then putting them up in other places (like online stores), possibly even ripping off other peoples' efforts and passing them off as their own.
I would LOVE to share my book here, if only to share it especially with all those gurus who have been of so much help to me in the creation of it (and other, previous books I've done over the years), but these above concerns really, well, concern me.
