Out-of-print public domain books on demand
This item will be of interest to those of you who, though supportive of the efforts to digitize books in the public domain, still like to hold the physical piece in your hands. I just learned of “an experimental non-commercial project to archive and re-publish public domain works.” Publicdomainreprints.org is a non-profit operation started by Yakov Shafranovich. At this site, you can search for and locate out-of-print texts in the public domain that have been digitally archived (e.g., in the Internet Archive or Google Books) and then request that a print copy be made. Once the request is completed, you get an email telling you that it is ready and then at that point, you can decide whether or not to purchase it.
