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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
When I offered to provide some late 19th/early 20th century Utopia/SF books, I was requested to provide it in scans for DP. I wasn't given any other option. I provided 3 books (The Pharoah's Broker, Mizora, and The Doomsman) They varied from 9 to over 20 months to get through the process. After 6 months, I gave up on PG US and corresponded with PG Australia. They would take books without going through DP, so I provided them with The Crystal Button and Man Abroad, personally scanned and tripled proofed by me. (I am working on Station X fitfully, and it is a boring book, but I will eventually release it to PG Austrailia. Then I will do Indian Tribes of North America by McKenney and Hall (1836 to 1844, 120 color illustrations) and release it there as well.)
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Ralph, it is true that PG encourages people without experience in producing ebooks to first provide the scans for DP. _However_
this is not mandatory and I'm deeply sorry if someone has misinformed you.
Everyone has the right to produce the text file all by themselves, withought DP's intervention at all!
All PG asks you is: 1st - to provide a copy of the title page for getting a copyright clearance; 2nd - that your file is a TXT; and 3rd - that you follow PG´s formatting conventions. (_italics_ +bold+ and so on).
Volunteers submit text files they have produced all by themselves everyday.
PG Australia is great project that needs more and more ebooks in their catalog. I'm happy you are contributing to it if that works best for you.
But please keep in mind what I've just said before and if someone tells you the opposite just let me know so I can determine what's going on.