http://www.teleread.com/public-domain/maksim-moshkow-and-libru-russias-own-gutenberg/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:26:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/public-domain/maksim-moshkow-and-libru-russias-own-gutenberg/comment-page-1/#comment-40542 Branko’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Lib.ru interviews Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:35:35 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=4005#comment-40542 [...] Lib.ru is a Russian Project Gutenberg. But instead of limiting itself mostly to public domain books, it publishes a large amount of in-copyright works, even translations of popular modern American novels, with permission from the authors and translators, according to Lib.ru founder and maintainer Maksim Moshkow (Teleread interviews: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4). Lib.ru has approximately 40,000 books in its catalogue. Is Russian copyright so different, or do Russian authors have a greater desire to be read? [...] [...] Lib.ru is a Russian Project Gutenberg. But instead of limiting itself mostly to public domain books, it publishes a large amount of in-copyright works, even translations of popular modern American novels, with permission from the authors and translators, according to Lib.ru founder and maintainer Maksim Moshkow (Teleread interviews: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4). Lib.ru has approximately 40,000 books in its catalogue. Is Russian copyright so different, or do Russian authors have a greater desire to be read? [...]

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