Eric Eldred
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Eric Eldred (born 1943) is an American
Eric Eldred has been described as a former computer programmer and systems administrator, a Boston writer, and a New Hampshire-based technical analyst. He is an independent scholar and first published online all of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, as well as scanning many works for Project Gutenberg and others.
Biography
Eldred grew up in Florida, graduated from Harvard University in 1966 (philosophy, general studies), and then became a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. He was ordered to work for two years as alternative service, at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was a respiratory therapist and a chief pulmonary technologist until 1987. After he bought an Apple II computer in 1980, he was active in Apple users' groups and went to Harvard Extension School (programming and technical writing, C.A.S. 1991). Then he worked as an engineer at Apollo Computer (later Hewlett-Packard), and Cahners Publishing as a technical analyst and computer magazine journalist, then for Wang Government Services as a senior Unix systems administrator, before becoming disabled from repetitive strain injury.
During 2004–05, he lived in an Internet Bookmobile traveling the U.S. visiting schools and libraries and special events to show readers how to print their own free books.[2][3]
Eldred is divorced, with three (triplet) daughters.
Eldritch Press
Eldritch Press is a website which republished the works of others in the public domain (no longer subject to copyright). For some years Eldritch Press ran on a Linux server from Eldred's home and is now hosted by Ibiblio and no longer maintained by him.[4] Its principal feature was experimentation with HTML formats and the inclusion of graphics (while maintaining accessibility for blind readers) for online books that earlier had mostly been in ASCII format. Since the works, and Eldred's derivative works based on them, are in the public domain, anyone can make use of them, host them, and create more works of their own without payment or credit.
In 2004, Eldred was denied a permit at
Eldred v. Ashcroft
In 1998, the
References
- ^ "Creative Commons: History". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ Eldred, Eric (2004-06-28). "Walden". Internet Archive Forums.
- ^ Eldred, Eric (2005-05-16). "Boston Public Library". Internet Archive Forums.
- ^ Eldritch Press on ibiblio with the payoff Here are free, accessible books. Read them and go in peace. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/
- ^ Eldred, Eric (2004-07-09). "Untitled post". Internet Archive Forums.
- ^ Kathleen Burge, Fighting to be free. Thoreau lover denied bid to give out book at Walden, July 19, 2004 on Boston.com http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/19/fighting_to_be_free/.
- ^ "Legal Affairs".
- http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/19/fighting_to_be_free/
- http://www.mass.gov/dem/parks/wldn.htm
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB104276617127133384
External links
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/ Archived 2004-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/