So, as stated, I gave all our covers to the Internet Archive/Open
Library project to be freely distributed in any way they want. The
plan—which is now out of my hands—was to distribute them freely in
many ways using IA's bandwidth and resources.
Am I also required to serve it up for free to avoid being scolded by you?
Tim
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Dan Scott <denials_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/6/6 Tim Spalding <tim_at_librarything.com>:
>> Yeah, it could perhaps be done through Amazon cloud services, although
>> those aren't free either... You'd want something better than just
>> covers at some predetermined size. You'd want something you could sub
>> in for the Amazon URLs, with sizing that's dynamic.
>>
>> T
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
>>> Tim Spalding wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On free covers, the main problem is bandwidth and processing.
>>>>
>>> coverTorrent?
>>>
>>> Really, wouldn't it be better to distribute this task? Not that I know
>>> how that could be done...
>
> Tim, I'm pretty sure we have the ability to figure out how to wrap
> services (like resizing) around cover images.
>
> When you spoke at the Digital Odyssey in Toronto last spring, I asked
> you whether the cover service that you were planning to make a big
> announcement on would have images that would be freely redistributable
> as a big tarball that could be bittorrented around - and you said
> "Yes."
>
> Has the answer really changed? That would be very disappointing, as it
> would mean that the library community had wasted a year with its hopes
> pinned on vapour.
>
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> Laurentian University
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