A neighbor dropped by to talk to me one day and in the course
of the conversation mentioned he had read the Project
Gutenberg Alice in Wonderland. I had no idea his interests
even included computers. He had found a few errors. I hurried
home to correct them and to put the new edition online.
At first I was in happy shock just because I could improve our
edition, but then it occurred to me that perhaps the more
important aspect was that someone I knew had downloaded Alice
all on his own, then read the entire book from "cover to
cover" on his computer thus putting paid to the naysayers who
said no one my age would read e-Books.
There are lots of stories like this: professors who tell me
their students will not read paper textbooks, Texas preparing
for all textbooks to be e-Books. . . .
Q. PG is a prime example of two phenomena characteristic to
the early Internet: collaborative efforts and volunteering.
With the crass commercialization of the Net - will people
continue to volunteer and collaborate - or will corporate,
brick and mortar, behemoths take over?
A.
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