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Honest question: Can someone tell me what's wrong with a business model of putting public domain content on the web (like their "Creole cookbook" example)? Cle
by chadgeidel 16y ago
Honest question: Can someone tell me what's wrong with a business model of putting public domain content on the web (like their "Creole cookbook" example)?
Clearly there's a line that has been crossed by republishing existing content - but wouldn't old content be fair game?
I don't plan on doing this BTW - it seems to me the hosting costs would outweigh the incoming ad dollars.
- _delirium 16y agoIf it's presented as an archival project (like Project Gutenberg), it seems like it's performing a public service. It's when people are less clear about it that it seems spammy: you're republishing a 1903 cookbook, but not being very clear about the fact that that's what you're doing. Even worse, and not really performing a public service, is when it's republishing old content that someone else has already digitized, like the dozens of sites republishing Project Gutenberg books with no real value-add.
- justincormack 16y agoIf you are obsessed by creole cooking and have some old books as part of your web content, sure. I cant see them making up more than a small proportion of a great creole cooking site though, you need new content, commentary and so on too. Cook all the recipes in the old books and add pictures and descriptions...