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Has any consideration been given to works which may start in this platform? My wife is an aspiring author, and we'd like more information. I'm sure there are many topics to cover, and we're interested in hearing all of them. However, I specifically wonder about the adoption of open source licensing to such works.

Thanks.

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I imagine it working similar to the original Project Gutenberg site: http://www.gutenberg.org/

For example, known books by established publishers, but with a self-publishing arm http://self.gutenberg.org/

The main thing that GITenberg could provide authors is a toolset and workflow for using git to store books, and some kind of toolchain to turn them into epub or print-ready pdf.

That toolchain is something I effectively have to build for GITenberg anyway.

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