In spanish there are communities that take paper books, digitalize them and release them in epub format. Books that probably will never see an official digital

In spanish there are communities that take paper books, digitalize them and release them in epub format. Books that probably will never see an official digital release, which surprisingly, is the fate of many classic books (it's improving but the spanish digital book market isn't as vibrant as the one Amazon created for english titles). The best community I've found has a huge manual that in essence works as an editorial blueprint of how your epub must be constructed and formatted in order for them to accept your digitalization of a book and release them under their label, which in effect makes this site a clandestine digital publisher of sorts. After you submit a title they have editors that review it, etc. and all of this is done by volunteers online. It's just awesome. There's no need to debate the legality of this site of course but if I was 14 today, with the free time I had back them, I'd definitely be geeking the hell out of that manual and digitalizing some of my many paper books. If there is a heaven, a special place must be reserved for all those guys that make that community work, if you ask me. Anyways, I haven't found similar communities in english although I assume there must be some.