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# Volunteers FAQ
Volunteers FAQ
==============
Project Gutenberg welcomes contributions of eBooks from people with the interest, time,
and skillset needed to meet our submission standards. Details of the process and the standards
are at our copyright clearance site (https://copy.pglaf.org) and upload site (https://upload.pglaf.org).
## Join Distributed Proofreaders, Instead
Join Distributed Proofreaders, Instead
--------------------------------------
For most people interested in producing eBooks, we recommend starting with Distributed Proofreaders (https://www.pgdp.net).
With Distributed Proofreaders, you can get involved with different portions of the production pipeline
described below. This is a much easier way to get started, and results in very high quality eBooks.
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If you simply want to suggest a book for digitization, DP has online forums for this, or you can
simply send an email (contact information is on the site).
## Being a Solo Producer
Being a Solo Producer
---------------------
If you might be interested in producing an eBook yourself, here is some guidance.
These steps are for eBooks that are in the public domain in the US, usually because the source
printed book was published, and then the term of copyright protection expired. 'Project Gutenberg
printed book was published, and then the term of copyright protection expired. ==Project Gutenberg
does not accept contemporary or copyrighted works. See our How-To on submitting your own work,
for information about our self-publishing portal.'
for information about our self-publishing portal.==
Note also that Project Gutenberg does not have a corps of volunteers who can take
your partially-completed work and turn it into a completed eBook. Instead, join Distributed
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require access to source material, or are stylistic or subjective in nature, we
might get in touch to discuss potential changes.
Note that Project Gutenberg is not in the business of teaching HTML,
More about HTML
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Project Gutenberg is not in the business of teaching HTML,
however nearly all Project Gutenberg's editions now have
both text and HTML files. The HTML files are not only
important in themselves but are the master files for the
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different tools, including Notepad, NoteTab or word
processors. The headings and footers of all our eBooks are
very similar. The body of the file has text with various
HTML tags such as <p>....</p>, <pre>....</pre>,
<h2>....</h2> to make the html display give the text
HTML tags such as ```<p>....</p>, <pre>....</pre>,
<h2>....</h2>``` to make the html display give the text
enclosed between these html tags apppear differently.
If you start with plain text, there are two very helpful programs that producers utilize: "guiguts"