[cc-community] looking for an application to display books online

Fred Benenson fred.benenson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 09:25:27 EDT 2007


I'm not sure how easy it will be to get it from them, but I find the reader
software at http://www.openlibrary.org/ to be some of the best online.

On the other hand, they'd be a great candidate to convince for the Affero
GPL.


F


On 9/5/07, Alek Tarkowski <alek at creativecommons.pl> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am working on a project to make scientific books available online.
> While we are able to obtain permission from the authors of the text, it
> is almost impossible to deal with rights to the fonts and layout used.
> For this reason, we cannot display scans of the books. At the same time
> we don't want to make available just files (PDFs for instance) for
> download - we want to make it possible to read the text in the browser.
>
> So we are looking for an application that displays in an elegant manner
> large bodies of text. If any of you know of such applications (or any
> similar projects that I could contact), I will be grateful for such
> information.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alek Tarkowski
>
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