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Poster: Steven Sills Date: Aug 11, 2004 8:03pm
Forum: gutenberg Subject: By all means, improve the safeguard with a good proposal

Again, all I can say is that years and years of my life have gone into these works. As you can see the three works are also catalogued by the Online Book Page at the University of Pennsylvania so they managed to get through the gates of both Project Gutenberg and the University of Pennsylvania. If you have proposals for more stringent standards please feel free to propose it to the right authorities.
I assure you, Branko, that Mr. Hart looked at the published book of poetry and thought it worthy enough to get a second life through Project Gutenberg; that I then had to show the merit of the prose by having it closely scrutinized by Greg Newby; that I spent two years revising Gabriele for Project Gutenberg and one year getting a good revision of Corpus; and that a librarian and a brilliant editor in Canada helped me edit all three books to get them to the point where they were taken by Project Gutenberg. I also want to reassure you that I have stated numerous times to all the high administrators at Project Gutenberg not to include the work unless it matched the highest standards. Ultimately it was Dr. Greg Newby who put all three books on the site and no one else. As I have recently learned there are around 100 contemporary authors who have been included in Project Gutenberg. I am certain that nothing unworthy gets through the doors; but if you want to propose safeguards that are even better please talk with Dr. Newby and Michael Hart. I think that issue should be discussed, and if my works are unworthy they should be removed.
Best regards,
Steven Sills

This post was modified by Steven Sills on 2004-08-12 03:03:45

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Poster: glenn Date: Aug 12, 2004 4:49am
Forum: gutenberg Subject: Re: Books in need of review.

"Vanity press" is a neutral term with a negative connotation for some. I don't think it was necessarily intended insultingly. Some people consider all writing to be 'vanity' but I know the people who regularly use this online resource are more enlightened than that in general... an author who is going to devote his life to the art needs a thick skin sometimes.

I'm going to look over these 3 books, could you advise a reading order?
glenn