Books from 1928 entering public domain Jan. 1 2024

[TriciaG]

Don't use the Faded Page one. They used a 1960s edition which might not be PD in the US.

I think you're safe using the IA one you linked to. It clearly looks 1928 PD to me.

[NicoleJLeBoeuf]

Don't use the Faded Page one. They used a 1960s edition which might not be PD in the US.

I think you're safe using the IA one you linked to. It clearly looks 1928 PD to me.

Woah, good catch on the Faded Page edition - thank you! I apparently stopped reading at "first published in 1928" in the copyright notice and missed the 1942 and 1963 dates on the following lines. *facepalm* I haven't started reading from it - all I've been doing with it is marking section breaks, and that work won't go to waste as I swap over to the IA edition.

Thank you!

[KevinS]

Does it matter if a book first published in 1928 is reprinted at a later time in terms of PD status. That is, would we consider a reprint to be the same text as that presented in 1928?

[TriciaG]

Does it matter if a book first published in 1928 is reprinted at a later time in terms of PD status. That is, would we consider a reprint to be the same text as that presented in 1928?

If it's simply a reprint, it should be fine. We'd have to take a look at it to be sure.

[KevinS]

Does it matter if a book first published in 1928 is reprinted at a later time in terms of PD status. That is, would we consider a reprint to be the same text as that presented in 1928?

If it's simply a reprint, it should be fine. We'd have to take a look at it to be sure.

Thank you. I haven't got anything planned just yet, but was curious.

[gweeks]

The Trumpeter of Krakow will be posted to PG from fadedpage shortly in January. It won't be on the 1st though.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72600

Greg

[Georgek86K]

I don't see them mentioned yet, but W.B. Yeat's poetry collection The Tower and Aldous Huxley's novel Point-Counterpoint were both published in 1928 and should be turning over to the public domain this year.

[Georgek86K]

*Yeats's. Ignore the typo.

[alanmapstone]

I don't see them mentioned yet, but W.B. Yeat's poetry collection The Tower and Aldous Huxley's novel Point-Counterpoint were both published in 1928 and should be turning over to the public domain this year.

I would like to record the Yeats collection The Tower but the oldest version I can find on Archive is a 1929 edition so still not usable.

[TriciaG]

I don't see them mentioned yet, but W.B. Yeat's poetry collection The Tower and Aldous Huxley's novel Point-Counterpoint were both published in 1928 and should be turning over to the public domain this year.

I would like to record the Yeats collection The Tower but the oldest version I can find on Archive is a 1929 edition so still not usable.

Here it is on HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001020237

[alanmapstone]

I would like to record the Yeats collection The Tower but the oldest version I can find on Archive is a 1929 edition so still not usable.

Here it is on HathiTrust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001020237

Thanks Tricia, I will launch this later today

EDIT: LAUNCHED

[m8b1]

A newly public domain short story by G.K. Chesterton, The Sword of Wood: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001418095

Less then 5,000 words, so would be good for a short story collection.

[gweeks]

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

To go with this one the first Wimsey short story collection, Lord Peter Views the Body, will also be PD in January. Hathitrust has a scan of the 1928 edition, which will probably be made available then.

The hathi copy is a modern reprint that didn't clear for Project Gutenberg. I have a scan from an older copy that did clear.

https://archive.org/details/lord-peter-views-the-body

I've posted the scan to the internet archive and will be running a project at pgdp.net.

Greg

[gweeks]

The Shore Road Mystery
https://archive.org/details/the-shore-road-mystery

The Shore Road mystery by Franklin W. Dixon
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/73102

Greg