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What a great project! Would you have a need for a veteran web dev who also happened to be an English major? Took a look at the volunteer page, but nothing jumpe

What a great project! Would you have a need for a veteran web dev who also happened to be an English major? Took a look at the volunteer page, but nothing jumped out.

acabal 4y ago
Absolutely! Creating epub ebooks is basically creating web pages. Epubs are just zipped up XHTML files, with exactly the same semantic structure and CSS styling you'd find on a well-made web page. That makes web devs with English majors our ideal type of volunteer! Check out our step by step guide to creating an ebook[1] and then our Wanted Ebook list[2] for some good first-time productions. Then send a note to our mailing list and we'll help you through it. Creating an ebook is a very satisfying endeavor - I always say it's like building your own lightsaber. [1] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-step-by-step https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste... [2] https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks https://standardebooks.org/contribute/wanted-ebooks
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- Aeolun 4y ago
  The list for accepting ebooks makes a lot of sense, but I noted that public domain books are excluded. What is the reason for that?
  - macintux 4y ago
    I’m neither associated with the project nor a lawyer, but I can speculate: afaik U.S. copyright law doesn’t explicitly allow someone to declare a text to be in the public domain.