Standard Ebooks
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that takes public domain texts from sources like Project Gutenberg and produces high-quality ebook editions with professional typography, careful proofreading, rich metadata, and modern ereader features. All ebooks are free, open-source, and released into the public domain. The project aims to provide beautifully formatted digital books that rival commercially produced editions.
Volunteers take public domain texts, apply a professional style manual for typography and formatting, proofread against original scans, and produce polished ebook files compatible with modern ereaders.
book lovers and ereader users who want high-quality free digital books
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
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