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Services to authors, publishers, and distributors

The ETEXT Archives does not maintain lists of links to content on other sites. Please do not request that we link to your off-site content. This project is only an archive; it is not a list of links. If you want a link, go to John Labovitz's E-Zine List.

Publishing your materials via the ETEXT Archives yields substantial benefits:

• Publishing on the ETEXT Archives is free. Disk space is allocated generously as long as it is available. Shortages have not existed for several years.
• Content published on the ETEXT Archives is indexed regularly by both public web crawlers and our own search engine.
• Potential readers of your materials are already finding and reading similar publications on the ETEXT Archives, and you'll benefit from the regular "foot traffic" of users browsing the archives. Users come to our site to search for documents and e-zines. Publishing your materials on the ETEXT Archives is the only way your content will end up in our search engine.
• We're committed to preserving your work forever, whether or not you choose to continue publishing.
• You retain editorial control, and can directly manage your own content (if you wish).
• You retain all rights to your work, and the ETEXT Archives will not sell or otherwise profit from your work.
• Your materials will be made available to the general public via both FTP and HTTP protocols.

Submitting your content to the archives

• Manage your own content. Request an FTP account by sending e-mail to accounts@etext.org. You'll be able to upload your own documents to be served up (and indexed) by our web and FTP servers; the files you upload will be immediately available to the public in your own archive subdirectory. You may occasionally experience lengthly delays in response to account requests.
• Upload your files anonymously. We maintain an FTP upload directory for users without authenticated access. Anyone may submit files with or without an account. The upload area is ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/incoming/. Please send a note to www@etext.org when you upload something, and tell us the file name(s) and subject matter that you uploaded so we know where it belongs.
• Have us mirror your work. If your documents are available via FTP on another server, and you'd like to have us copy them to the ETEXT Archives automatically once per week, send your request via e-mail to www@etext.org and we'll set it up. You'll maintain your work on your primary server, and we'll mirror all your changes and updates automatically.

What submissions will we reject?

• No links. We will not add a link to your web site. We only offer publishing services. This is not a directory, catalog, database, etc.
• Materials must be within the scope of our project. This includes zines, politics, fiction, poetry, books and religious texts. It specifically does not include software. We also generally do not accept business or marketing newsletters, or other works of a strictly commercial nature (whether or not they are free). If you would like to publish something outside our current scope, tell us about it.
• No pornography will be accepted. Zines and fiction sometimes contain erotic or profane language. This is usually acceptable. We are primarily interested in not becoming a site that serves up pictures of naked people. We could never have enough bandwidth to offer this. If in doubt, ask.
• We must respect copyright law. Do not submit materials without permission from copyright holders. Do not submit materials which have copyright restrictions that prevent free and uncontrolled redistribution to the general public. You can retain copyright to your work. You cannot prevent it from being widely redistributed if you put it on our servers. If you wish to submit materials for which you are not the copyright holder, please obtain written permission from the copyright holder and send it to us. Send us an e-mail message at www@etext.org to arrange this.
• Use appropriate formats. Although we will accept documents in almost any format, we strongly recommend that you use formats which lend themselves to on-line browsing and indexing. This means that ASCII text, HTML (and associated popular image formats), PDF, and PostScript are the most recommended document formats. Try to avoid using word processor or application formats which limit your readership and prevent your documents from being located by our search engine. Remember that your readers will be using dozens of different computer platforms, and may not have the same software that you do.

Acknowledging your sponsor

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