That’s so cool! Is there any chance you’re willing to share those epub’s? I’m a private Archivist/Data Hoarder and would love to get my hands on those files just to keep them safe.
Feel free to contact me, my email is on my profile.
I'll create a Facebook group to serve as a "reading club" and publish the fulltext in a bit-by-bit fashion to the group as Facebook documents, maybe also to Bubblin at zero price. I like the idea of being able to link directly to individual pages within the Bubblin-based ebook. The usefulness of this feature depends a bit on how good the previews look that Facebook would end up extracting for those links. For people who want a more proper book experience there will be a ZIP file available for download with a printable PDF and an EPUB. I'll make that bundle available for purchase using a service similar to gumtree but better geared for the German market.
My hope would be that, through these purchases, I can recoup some of the costs that went into the production of those works. After the reading club is through, or when I've made enough money to break even, whichever comes first, I'll upload the EPUB for free to Amazon, project gutenberg, archive.org, wikisource, wikimedia commons, and whatever other platform I can think of. I'll also upload the scanned source material to achive.org. I can send it to you as well, if you'd like, once I get to that stage.
The baseline strategy here would be to just upload to Kindle Direct Publishing and put a price tag on it. But if I did that, then Amazon would stand to benefit from my efforts more than either I or the general public would, and it would probably not get the material as much circulation. So that's what I'm trying to avoid by doing things this way.
I’m sick of these rent seeking fee grabbing antiquated ideas prevailing just because “that’s how it’s always been done”
I truly respect your efforts and wouldn’t comment here if I didn’t think I had a way to improve that process for you. Please email me if you’re interested in hearing more. Email is username at gmail.
Looking forward to hopefully hearing from you.
Reason I ask is because I’m creating a website where users can be paid for demonstrating competency in content while also serving as a more sane and organized organizational structure for content.
Email is username at gmail if you’d like to chat.