May I suggest, McComas, that you have a look at CreativeCommons.org, and choose an appropriate license from there that suits what you want?  It's the best way to be totally clear about how stuff gets - or doesn't get - shared. 

The CreativeCommons licenses are also based on solid legal grounds, so there's no ambiguity.  For example, your statement that your book is in the Public Domain is probably not what you really mean, and may not even be true, even though you said it.  

I strongly recommend that you adopt a Creative Commons license.  Did I say that already?  :-)

Best,
Dominik

--
Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies,
University of Vienna


On 3 March 2014 13:31, Robert Zydenbos <zydenbos@uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
McComas Taylor wrote:

Dear Colleagues

I am delighted to announce that ANU Press has published/The Joy of
Sanskrit: A First-Year Syllabus for Tertiary Students, /written with my
colleague Grazia Scotellaro.  [...]


It is freely avaible in the public domain, and runs on Mac, iPads,
iPhones and Android systems. (Windows version is still to come).

I downloaded the ebook and was considering putting it onto my own website for faster download for my students here in Germany -- but then I read the following, which seems to contradict what you write about the public domain:

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.
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I suppose this is the real copyright status (which I can understand, seeing the amount of work that has gone into it). May we redistribute it through other websites, provided we get that permission? In any case I can put the Australian URL on my webpages.

RZ

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Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos
Institute of Indology and Tibetology
Department of Asian Studies
University of Munich
Germany
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