What is This All About? This is an experiment to see what the demand for reprints of public domain books would be. This free service can take any book from the Internet Archive (that is not in copyright) and reprint it using Lulu.com. Prices of the books are rounded up from Lulu.com cost prices to the nearest $0.99 to cover the bandwidth and processing power that we rent from Amazon using their EC2 service.
How Does It Work Anyone with an email address can place a request on this page using an Internet Archive link or ID. Your request will be forwarded to our conversion server which will convert the appropriate book to printable form, and sends it off to Lulu.com. When the book has been uploaded, it will be made for immediate ordering and shipping, and you will receive a link to it via email.
How Long Does it Take? It takes about 5-10 minutes to process a single book, HOWEVER larger files and larger server loads will increase this time. At this time, please allow for up to 24 hours and possibly longer....
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
