So, yeah I knew for some time that there is Project Gutenberg, Google Books, the Internet Archive, those distributed library database projects from Cornell, and so on… but what sense of continuity between those distinct collections is there? Where is the collaboration and communication between them? What is their official stance on each other? Yeah, for Google, we know the official stance is clear… to have a digital book collection owned by Google. As the others are nonprofits, the situation of lack of communication and collaboration is less clear. Alas, it may be that they are suffering just the same thing that we observe to be happening with libre software projects… parallel projects working toward the same goal, but alas with incompatible symbolic ways of doing so.
20190125/https://www.gutenberg.org/
20190125/https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Volunteering
20190125/https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteering_for_Project_Gutenberg
20190125/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenberg
20190125/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive
Wikipedia itself is not much more helpful in providing a stance either. Just a “list of similar projects.”