diff --git a/frontend/templates/about.html b/frontend/templates/about.html deleted file mode 100644 index 59b2f25a..00000000 --- a/frontend/templates/about.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -{% extends "basedocumentation.html" %} -{% block title %} Everything You Always Wanted to Know {% endblock %} -{% block doccontent %} -
Unglue.it is a service provided by The Free Ebook Foundation It's a place for individuals and institutions to join together to liberate specific ebooks and other types of digital content by paying authors and publishers to relicense their works under Creative Commons licenses.
- -What does this mean?
-You can learn more about us in our FAQs and our press page. -
By claiming this work, you agree that your claim is governed by a Platform Services Agreement in effect between you (or an entity that you act as agent for) and the Free Ebook Foundation, Inc., the operator of the Unglue.it website, and by the unglue.it Website Terms .
\ No newline at end of file +By claiming this work, you agree that your claim is governed by a Rights Holder Agreement in effect between you (or an entity that you act as agent for) and the Free Ebook Foundation, Inc., the operator of the Unglue.it website, and by the unglue.it Website Terms .
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/frontend/templates/ebookfiles.html b/frontend/templates/ebookfiles.html index 99a909f9..513f8513 100644 --- a/frontend/templates/ebookfiles.html +++ b/frontend/templates/ebookfiles.html @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@Much of the "supply chain" for ebooks is fueled by a percentage of the ebook's purchase price. When the ebook is free, this supply chain stops running. When we started ungluing ebooks, we were were surprised that even library vendors had minimum prices for their ebooks. Working with partners such as the Internet Archive, the Digital Public Library of America, and New York Public Library, we set out to build a new supply chain that helps free ebooks have their potential impact. +
+By adding a free-licensed ebook to the unglue.it database, you do a lot more than just add it to Unglue.it. We promote free ebooks on our website and on social networks. Our metadata syndication feeds help propagate that book around the world, into libraries, archives and communities. +
If you have already released your work under a Creative Commons license, you need to use a "Thanks for Ungluing" campaign. If you have an EPUB file ready to sell, you should use a "Buy to Unglue" campaign. Otherwise, you'll want to offer rewards in a "Pledge-to-Unglue" campaign.
++Free licenses help ebooks accomplish their missions, but that doesn't mean their creators don't need financial support. Unglue.it has three programs to help creators find that support. +
+ +If you have already released your work under a Creative Commons license, you can use the "Thanks for Ungluing" program. If you have an EPUB file ready to sell, you can use the "Buy to Unglue" program. If you need to raise money to complete your ebook, you can offer rewards through the "Pledge-to-Unglue" program. To use one of these programs, you launch a "campaign".
For Pledge campaigns, you can run campaigns for books that haven't been converted to digital. -Any print book can be scanned to create a digital file that can then become an ePub-format unglued ebook to be released after the Pledge Campaign succeeds.
+For Pledge campaigns, you can run campaigns for books that are incomplete or haven't been converted to digital. +Any print book can be scanned to create a digital file that can then become an unglued ebook to be released after the Pledge Campaign succeeds.
Rewards
Campaigns run for a short period (2-6 months) and can have rewards as a way to motivate and thank supporters for helping to reach your goal. You are strongly encouraged to add rewards - they are given special prominence on the campaign page.
diff --git a/frontend/templates/rh_tools.html b/frontend/templates/rh_tools.html index 8189602e..d30b7a96 100644 --- a/frontend/templates/rh_tools.html +++ b/frontend/templates/rh_tools.html @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Any questions not covered here? Please email us atUnless you are a Rights Holder who has entered into a Platform Services Agreement with the Company (the “PSA”), and in which case only as expressly authorized by the PSA, the Service is provided only for your personal, non-commercial use, and for use by libraries and similar non-profit entities.
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