Here’s an article found over at TeleRead that should be of great interest to Project Gutenberg.
Sixteen million copyright records from the U.S. Copyright Office are now available in bulk, thanks to the efforts of Carl Malamud (left), Peter Brantley and others.
No more will the feds charge tens of thousands of dollars for subscriptions to the copyright catalog of of monographs, documents, and serials. Way to go, guys! Nothing like “a bit of a blogospheric brouhaha” to stir things up, eh? Now, here’s the fun part. The government had attracted only two subscribers, given the outrageous fees.
Having access to such a database should help anyone wanting to research the suitability of books for inclusion in the PG archives.
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